Land Sharing vs Land Sparing to Conserve Biodiversity: How Agricultural Markets Make the Difference

How can higher-yield farming help to spare nature?

(2016) B. Phalan et al.   SCIENCE

Mutually beneficial pollinator diversity and crop yield outcomes in small and large farms

(2016) L. A. Garibaldi et al.   SCIENCE

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Financial competitiveness of organic agriculture on a global scale

(2015) David W. Crowder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resilience and reactivity of global food security

(2015) Samir Suweis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt

(2014) Forest Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Large-scale trade-off between agricultural intensification and crop pollination services

(2014) Nicolas Deguines et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health

(2014) David Tilman et al.   NATURE

Global market integration increases likelihood that a future African Green Revolution could increase crop land use and CO2 emissions

(2014) T. W. Hertel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversification practices reduce organic to conventional yield gap

(2014) L. C. Ponisio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Agricultural intensification escalates future conservation costs

(2013) J. Phelps et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century

(2013) F. Krausmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward

(2013) Joern Fischer et al.   Conservation Letters

Global Biodiversity Change: The Bad, the Good, and the Unknown

(2012) Henrique Miguel Pereira et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification

(2012) Teja Tscharntke et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture

(2012) Verena Seufert et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security

(2012) Riccardo Bommarco et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Minimising the harm to biodiversity of producing more food globally

(2011) Ben Phalan et al.   FOOD POLICY

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Combining high biodiversity with high yields in tropical agroforests

(2011) Y. Clough et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global growth and stability of agricultural yield decrease with pollinator dependence

(2011) L. A. Garibaldi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity

(2011) Eric F. Lambin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared

(2011) B. Phalan et al.   SCIENCE

Conservation: Limits of Land Sparing

(2011) J. Fischer et al.   SCIENCE

Why Isn’t More US Farmland Organic?

(2010) Nicolai V. Kuminoff et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

The agroecological matrix as alternative to the land-sparing/agriculture intensification model

(2010) I. Perfecto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Policies for reduced deforestation and their impact on agricultural production

(2010) A. Angelsen   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

The Economics of a Blend Mandate for Biofuels

(2009) Harry de Gorter et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Do increases in agricultural yield spare land for nature?

(2009) ROBERT M. EWERS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Why are ecological, low-input, multi-resistant wheat cultivars slow to develop commercially? A Belgian agricultural ‘lock-in’ case study

(2007) Gaëtan Vanloqueren et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS