Based on the structure of the passage, the most likely continuation would be a solution to the problem of world hunger. The passage discusses the challenges and negative impacts of current agricultural practices on the environment and farmers' livelihoods, suggesting that a shift toward finding sustainable farming solutions would be a logical next step.
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"Researcher Seeks
Farming Solutions"
by Isabella Isaacs-Thomas
To feed the world and then some, farms and pastures take
up a lot of space — 40 percent of all land globally is used for
agriculture — and inevitably take a significant toll on the
environment.
Agricultural practices generated 10 percent of total
greenhouse gas emissions in the United States in 2019.
Excess nitrogen and phosphorus — standard soil nutrients
found in manure or chemical fertilizers — can leak from
croplands into nearby waterways and eat up the oxygen in
aquatic ecosystems, sometimes killing the creatures that call
them home, and even making humans sick.
Meanwhile, as the costs of fertilizer, equipment and land
itself rise, “farmers have to farm more and more acres” to
make ends meet, said landscape ecologist Lisa Schulte
Moore. As it becomes increasingly difficult for farm
operations to be profitable enough to sustain people’s
livelihoods, there are fewer and fewer active farms,
according to the USDA’s Census of Agriculture, conducted
every five years.
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a comparison between aquatic and soil-based ecosystems
a solution to the problem of world hunger
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