A landscape-scale approach to land use can encourage greater biodiversity even outside formally protected areas. After a severe storm, farms using ecologically friendly practices suffered markedly less crop damage than neighbouring farms using conventional methods in several countries. Vegetative windbreaks and hedgerows have also been found to boost farmers' income from certain crops while increasing local bird diversity, since many of the world's staple and cash crops depend partly on animal pollinators that favour habitat closer to natural or semi-natural land.

Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?