Land for Food & Land for Nature
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Opinions on how to limit the immense impact of agriculture on wild species are divided. Some think it best to retain as much wildlife as possible on farms, even at the cost of lowering yield (production per unit area). Others advocate the opposite: increasing yield so as to limit the area needed for farming, and then retaining larger areas under natural habitats. Still others support a mixture of the two extremes, or an intermediate approach. Here we summarize a model designed to resolve this disagreement, and review the empirical evidence available to date. We conclude that this evidence largely supports the second, so-called land-sparing approach to reconciling agriculture and biodiversity conservation, but that important questions remain over the generality of these findings for different biota and for ecosystem services, how best to increase yields while limiting environmental externalities, and whether there are effective, socially just, and practical mechanisms for coupling yield growth to habitat retention and restoration
Agriculture · Biodiversity · Biology · Economics · Ecosystem · Ecosystem services · Empirical evidence · Environmental resource management · Externality · Generality · Habitat · Limiting · Microeconomics · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Unit (ring theory · Wildlife · Yield (engineering · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies · Economic and Environmental Valuation
Ecosystem Service Provision by Secondary Forests in Shifting Cultivation Areas Remains Poorly Understood
Spatially targeted nature-based solutions can mitigate climate change and nature loss but require a systems approach
Operationalizing transformative change for business in the context of Nature Positive
Beef–cattle ranching in the Paraguayan Chaco
The global cropland-sparing potential of high-yield farming
Limits to agricultural land for retaining acceptable levels of local biodiversity
The environmental costs and benefits of high-yield farming
Safeguarding forests from smallholder oil palm expansion by more intensive production? The case of Ngwei forest (Cameroon)
Land Sparing and Land Sharing Policies in Developing Countries – Drivers and Linkages to Scientific Debates
Reconciling farming and wild nature
Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing
Should agricultural policies encourage land sparing or wildlife-friendly farming?
Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s
Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change
Do increases in agricultural yield spare land for nature?
Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature
Agricultural sustainability
Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation
Food Security
Transportation costs and the spatial distribution of land use in the Brazilian Amazon
Doubling food production to feed the 9 billion
Minimising the harm to biodiversity of producing more food globally
| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |