Gapfill 8

Gap-fill exercise

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
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Agriculture in balance
Farming is not only important because it feeds us. It is also important because it employs a great number of people, to the and is essential in conserving nature, biodiversity and landscapes.
But modern farming often has a ; it pollutes nature. Modern farming to pollution of soil, water and air and often has a detrimental effect on biodiversity, wildlife and birds. It also to the greenhouse effect because of high use of (for and production of ).
We only have one Earth and we want it to last for future . We need to move
to ecologically agriculture that biological and without undermining future cultivation of the soil.