Concentrating vs. spreading our footprint: how to meet humanity's needs at least cost to nature

Sparing land for secondary forest regeneration protects more tropical biodiversity than land sharing in cattle farming landscapes

(2021) Felicity A. Edwards et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity: integrating T riad and sharing–sparing approaches to inform forest landscape management

(2021) Matthew G. Betts et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Dynamic soil functions assessment employing land use and climate scenarios at regional scale

(2021) Elisabeth Jost et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Environmental policies that shape productivity: Evidence from cattle ranching in the Amazon

(2021) Fanny Moffette et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT

Human fertility in relation to education, economy, religion, contraception, and family planning programs

(2020) Frank Götmark et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Optimising nature conservation outcomes for a given region‐wide level of food production

(2020) Tom Finch et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Effective fisheries management instrumental in improving fish stock status

(2020) Ray Hilborn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Opinion: Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk

(2020) Moreno Di Marco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of selective logging on avian phylogenetic and functional diversity in the Amazon

(2020) L. A. M. Mestre et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Agricultural intensification and land use change: Assessing country-level induced intensification, land sparing and rebound effect

(2020) Virginia Rodriguez Garcia et al.   Environmental Research Letters

COVID-19: Analogues and lessons for tackling the extinction and climate crises

(2020) Andrew Balmford et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Does smallholder maize intensification reduce deforestation? Evidence from Zambia

(2020) Johanne Pelletier et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Trade‐offs between biodiversity and agriculture are moving targets in dynamic landscapes

(2020) Leandro Macchi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The influence of landscape composition and configuration on crop yield resilience

(2020) John.W. Redhead et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Formalizing land rights can reduce forest loss: Experimental evidence from Benin

(2020) Liam Wren-Lewis et al.   Science Advances

Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

(2020) David Leclère et al.   NATURE

Evaluating spatially explicit sharing‐sparing scenarios for multiple environmental outcomes

(2020) Tom Finch et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Farming fish in the sea will not nourish the world

(2020) Ben Belton et al.   Nature Communications

Proactive conservation to prevent habitat losses to agricultural expansion

(2020) David R. Williams et al.   Nature Sustainability

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

(2019) Walter Willett et al.   LANCET

Sustainable agricultural intensification in an era of rural transformation in Africa

(2019) T.S. Jayne et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

The impact of income, land, and wealth inequality on agricultural expansion in Latin America

(2019) M. Graziano Ceddia   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Land-sparing agriculture sustains higher levels of avian functional diversity than land sharing

(2019) Patrick G. Cannon et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Bird conservation and the land sharing‐sparing continuum in farmland‐dominated landscapes of lowland England

(2019) Tom Finch et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Overlooked biodiversity loss in tropical smallholder agriculture

(2019) Jacob B. Socolar et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets

(2019) E. Dinerstein et al.   Science Advances

Remnant forest in Costa Rican working landscapes fosters bird communities that are indistinguishable from protected areas

(2019) Daniel S. Karp et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Rebound effects in agricultural land and soil management: Review and analytical framework

(2019) Carsten Paul et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Land sparing to make space for species dependent on natural habitats and high nature value farmland

(2019) Claire Feniuk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship

(2019) Carl Folke et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Consequences of agricultural total factor productivity growth for the sustainability of global farming: accounting for direct and indirect land use effects

(2019) Nelson Villoria   Environmental Research Letters

Genetic strategies for improving crop yields

(2019) Julia Bailey-Serres et al.   NATURE

Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods

(2019) Michael A Clark et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages

(2019) Shane A. Blowes et al.   SCIENCE

Unraveling the claims for (and against) green growth

(2019) Tim Jackson et al.   SCIENCE

The greenhouse gas impacts of converting food production in England and Wales to organic methods

(2019) Laurence G. Smith et al.   Nature Communications

Aligning biodiversity conservation and agricultural production in heterogeneous landscapes

(2019) Van Butsic et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Rapid declines across Australian fishery stocks indicate global sustainability targets will not be achieved without an expanded network of ‘no-fishing’ reserves

(2018) Graham J. Edgar et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Impacts of selective logging management on butterflies in the Amazon

(2018) Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A climate-adapted push-pull system effectively controls fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J E Smith), in maize in East Africa

(2018) Charles A.O. Midega et al.   CROP PROTECTION

Forest cover is more important than farmland heterogeneity and livestock intensification for the retention of dung beetle phylogenetic diversity

(2018) Fredy Alvarado et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Winners and losers of national and global efforts to reconcile agricultural intensification and biodiversity conservation

(2018) Lukas Egli et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Compact cities or sprawling suburbs? Optimising the distribution of people in cities to maximise species diversity

(2018) Andrew Geschke et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Feedlot diet for Americans that results from a misspecified optimization algorithm

(2018) Marco Springmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Crop intensification, land use, and on-farm energy-use efficiency during the worldwide spread of the green revolution

(2018) Pedro Pellegrini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative terrestrial feed and land use of an aquaculture-dominant world

(2018) Halley E. Froehlich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers

(2018) J. Poore et al.   SCIENCE

Ocean zoning within a sparing versus sharing framework

(2018) Jennifer McGowan et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Commentary: Forest Cover Is Critical for Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Livestock-Dominated Landscapes

(2018) Fredy Alvarado et al.   Tropical Conservation Science

Results from On-The-Ground Efforts to Promote Sustainable Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon

(2018) Erasmus zu Ermgassen et al.   Sustainability

What Have We Learned from the Land Sparing-sharing Model?

(2018) Benjamin Phalan   Sustainability

Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment

(2018) Eva-Marie Meemken et al.   Annual Review of Resource Economics

Study context shapes recommendations of land-sparing and sharing; a quantitative review

(2018) Matthew Scott Luskin et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Carbon Storage and Land-Use Strategies in Agricultural Landscapes across Three Continents

(2018) David R. Williams et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Avoidable food losses and associated production-phase greenhouse gas emissions arising from application of cosmetic standards to fresh fruit and vegetables in Europe and the UK

(2018) Stephen D. Porter et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Pursuing sustainable productivity with millions of smallholder farmers

(2018) Zhenling Cui et al.   NATURE

How imperfect can land sparing be before land sharing is more favourable for wild species?

(2018) Ben Balmford et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

(2018) Marco Springmann et al.   NATURE

Assessing the efficiency of changes in land use for mitigating climate change

(2018) Timothy D. Searchinger et al.   NATURE

Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people

(2018) C. Kremen et al.   SCIENCE

Agricultural Productivity and Forest Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

(2018) Nicolas Koch et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice

(2017) Michael Clark et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Land-use strategies to balance livestock production, biodiversity conservation and carbon storage in Yucatán, Mexico

(2017) David R Williams et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Are MPAs effective?

(2017) Ray Hilborn et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Counterpoint to Hilborn

(2017) Enric Sala et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

The role of livestock intensification and landscape structure in maintaining tropical biodiversity

(2017) Fredy Alvarado et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Urban development, land sharing and land sparing: the importance of considering restoration

(2017) Lydia Collas et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

“Primeval forest relict beetles” of Central Europe: a set of 168 umbrella species for the protection of primeval forest remnants

(2017) Andreas Eckelt et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally

(2017) David A. Gill et al.   NATURE

How to spare half a planet

(2017) Andrew Balmford et al.   NATURE

Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

(2017) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   NATURE

Global forest loss disproportionately erodes biodiversity in intact landscapes

(2017) Matthew G. Betts et al.   NATURE

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

(2017) David Tilman et al.   NATURE

Does the impact of biodiversity differ between emerging and endemic pathogens? The need to separate the concepts of hazard and risk

(2017) Parviez R. Hosseini et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Human infectious disease burdens decrease with urbanization but not with biodiversity

(2017) Chelsea L. Wood et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Reply to Hilborn: Role of marine reserves depends on assumptions

(2017) Alan Hastings et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Traditional fisheries management is the best way to manage weak stocks

(2017) Ray Hilborn   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marine reserves solve an important bycatch problem in fisheries

(2017) Alan Hastings et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The interaction of human population, food production, and biodiversity protection

(2017) Eileen Crist et al.   SCIENCE

Reframing the Food–Biodiversity Challenge

(2017) Joern Fischer et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Carbon and Biodiversity Impacts of Intensive Versus Extensive Tropical Forestry

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   Conservation Letters

Many shades of gray—The context-dependent performance of organic agriculture

(2017) Verena Seufert et al.   Science Advances

Agricultural intensification without biodiversity loss is possible in grassland landscapes

(2017) Nadja K. Simons et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

To what extent could edge effects and habitat fragmentation diminish the potential benefits of land sparing?

(2016) Anthony Lamb et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Demand for biodiversity protection and carbon storage as drivers of global land change scenarios

(2016) David A. Eitelberg et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

How many broadleaved trees are enough in conifer plantations? The economy of land sharing, land sparing and quantitative targets

(2016) Yuichi Yamaura et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Mixed policies give more options in multifunctional tropical forest landscapes

(2016) Elizabeth A. Law et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

“Big Food” Is Making America Sick

(2016) LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN   MILBANK QUARTERLY

Are farmed fish just for the wealthy? Golden et al. reply

(2016) Christopher Golden   NATURE

Are farmed fish just for the wealthy?

(2016) Ben Belton et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

(2016) Sean L. Maxwell et al.   NATURE

Anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests can double biodiversity loss from deforestation

(2016) Jos Barlow et al.   NATURE

Half-Earth or Whole Earth? Radical ideas for conservation, and their implications

(2016) Bram Büscher et al.   ORYX

The right incentives enable ocean sustainability successes and provide hope for the future

(2016) Jane Lubchenco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Averting a global fisheries disaster

(2016) Boris Worm   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global fishery prospects under contrasting management regimes

(2016) Christopher Costello et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change

(2016) Marco Springmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

How can higher-yield farming help to spare nature?

(2016) B. Phalan et al.   SCIENCE

Effective Coverage Targets for Ocean Protection

(2016) Bethan C. O'Leary et al.   Conservation Letters

Exploring the biophysical option space for feeding the world without deforestation

(2016) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   Nature Communications

Catch reconstructions reveal that global marine fisheries catches are higher than reported and declining

(2016) Daniel Pauly et al.   Nature Communications

Can the co-cultivation of rice and fish help sustain rice production?

(2016) Liangliang Hu et al.   Scientific Reports

Energy Sprawl Is the Largest Driver of Land Use Change in United States

(2016) Anne M. Trainor et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Recreation on Animals Revealed as Widespread through a Global Systematic Review

(2016) Courtney L. Larson et al.   PLoS One

Reframing the land-sparing/land-sharing debate for biodiversity conservation

(2015) Claire Kremen   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Trade-offs between bird diversity and abundance, yields and revenue in smallholder oil palm plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia

(2015) Miriam Teuscher et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Assessing strategies to reconcile agriculture and bird conservation in the temperate grasslands of South America

(2015) G. Dotta et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Land-Sparing Agriculture Best Protects Avian Phylogenetic Diversity

(2015) David P. Edwards et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Using optimization methods to align food production and biodiversity conservation beyond land sharing and land sparing

(2015) Van Butsic et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Evaluation of forest management strategies based on Triad zoning

(2015) Chris Ward et al.   FORESTRY CHRONICLE

Land sparing is crucial for urban ecosystem services

(2015) Iain Stott et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Functional responses of insectivorous bats to increasing housing density support ‘land-sparing’ rather than ‘land-sharing’ urban growth strategies

(2015) Fiona M. Caryl et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Agricultural development and the conservation of avian biodiversity on the Eurasian steppes: a comparison of land-sparing and land-sharing approaches

(2015) Johannes Kamp et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Comparable benefits of land sparing and sharing indicated by bird responses to stand-level plantation intensity in Hokkaido, northern Japan

(2015) Chiaki Yoshii et al.   Journal of Forest Research

Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

(2015) Sarah Whitmee et al.   LANCET

From sea sharing to sea sparing – Is there a paradigm shift in ocean management?

(2015) Matthias Wolff   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Wildlife-friendly farming increases crop yield: evidence for ecological intensification

(2015) Richard F. Pywell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Making waves: The science and politics of ocean protection

(2015) J. Lubchenco et al.   SCIENCE

Metrics for land-scarce agriculture

(2015) R. DeFries et al.   SCIENCE

Did Ranchers and Slaughterhouses Respond to Zero-Deforestation Agreements in the Brazilian Amazon?

(2015) Holly K. Gibbs et al.   Conservation Letters

Providing Context for the Land-Sharing and Land-Sparing Debate

(2015) Elizabeth A. Law et al.   Conservation Letters

Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

(2015) David Kleijn et al.   Nature Communications

Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas

(2015) Andrew Balmford et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Role of Tourism and Recreation in the Spread of Non-Native Species: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

(2015) Lucy G. Anderson et al.   PLoS One

The Effects of Agricultural Technological Progress on Deforestation: What Do We Really Know?

(2014) N. B. Villoria et al.   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Optimizing carbon storage and biodiversity protection in tropical agricultural landscapes

(2014) James J. Gilroy et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

When enough should be enough: Improving the use of current agricultural lands could meet production demands and spare natural habitats in Brazil

(2014) Bernardo B.N. Strassburg et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Surrounding habitats mediate the trade-off between land-sharing and land-sparing agriculture in the tropics

(2014) James J. Gilroy et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Land sharing vs. land sparing: does the compact city reconcile urban development and biodiversity conservation?

(2014) Masashi Soga et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Global diets link environmental sustainability and human health

(2014) David Tilman et al.   NATURE

A global strategy for road building

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

Productivity limits and potentials of the principles of conservation agriculture

(2014) Cameron M. Pittelkow et al.   NATURE

Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

(2014) Graham J. Edgar et al.   NATURE

Closing yield gaps: perils and possibilities for biodiversity conservation

(2014) B. Phalan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Achieving food security for one million sub-Saharan African poor through push-pull innovation by 2020

(2014) Z. R. Khan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Governance, agricultural intensification, and land sparing in tropical South America

(2014) M. G. Ceddia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

The global distribution of diet breadth in insect herbivores

(2014) Matthew L. Forister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Whose conservation?

(2014) G. M. Mace   SCIENCE

Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

(2014) M. Dornelas et al.   SCIENCE

Importance of food-demand management for climate mitigation

(2014) Bojana Bajželj et al.   Nature Climate Change

Close the High Seas to Fishing?

(2014) Crow White et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Does intensification slow crop land expansion or encourage deforestation?

(2014) Derek Byerlee et al.   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Reducing GHG emissions through genetic improvement for feed efficiency: effects on economically important traits and enteric methane production

(2013) J. A. Basarab et al.   Animal

The Marine Mammal Protection Act at 40: status, recovery, and future of U.S. marine mammals

(2013) Joe Roman et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Balancing the benefits of ecotourism and development: The effects of visitor trail-use on mammals in a Protected Area in rapidly developing China

(2013) Youbing Zhou et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A Small-Scale Land-Sparing Approach to Conserving Biological Diversity in Tropical Agricultural Landscapes

(2013) RICHARD B. CHANDLER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Understanding and Managing Zoonotic Risk in the New Livestock Industries

(2013) Marco Liverani et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

Redefining agricultural yields: from tonnes to people nourished per hectare

(2013) Emily S Cassidy et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Recent advances in recreation ecology and the implications of different relationships between recreation use and ecological impacts

(2013) Christopher A Monz et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Land-sharing versus land-sparing logging: reconciling timber extraction with biodiversity conservation

(2013) David P. Edwards et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Does the tropical agricultural matrix bear potential for primate conservation? A baseline study from Western Uganda

(2013) Víctor Blanco et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Sharing or sparing? How should we grow the world's cities?

(2013) Brenda B. Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Some of the rarest European saproxylic beetles are common in the wilderness of Northern Mongolia

(2013) Jörg Müller et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Conserving the Birds of Uganda’s Banana-Coffee Arc: Land Sparing and Land Sharing Compared

(2013) Mark F. Hulme et al.   PLoS One

Environmental cost of conservation victories

(2013) Ray Hilborn   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change

(2013) B. A. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Green Revolution research saved an estimated 18 to 27 million hectares from being brought into agricultural production

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

Sustainable, efficient livestock production with high biodiversity and good welfare for animals

(2013) D. M. Broom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward

(2013) Joern Fischer et al.   Conservation Letters

Distinguishing between yield advances and yield plateaus in historical crop production trends

(2013) Patricio Grassini et al.   Nature Communications

The crop yield gap between organic and conventional agriculture

(2012) Tomek de Ponti et al.   AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS

The effects of land sparing and wildlife-friendly practices on grassland bird abundance within organic farmlands

(2012) John E. Quinn et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Trade-Offs between Cattle Production and Bird Conservation in an Agricultural Frontier of the Gran Chaco of Argentina

(2012) Matias E. Mastrangelo et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Biofuels on the landscape: Is “land sharing” preferable to “land sparing”?

(2012) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A comparison of land-sharing and land-sparing strategies for plant richness conservation in agricultural landscapes

(2012) J. Franklin Egan et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Concentrating anthropogenic disturbance to balance ecological and economic values: applications to forest management

(2012) Rebecca Tittler et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Agricultural subsidies and forest clearing in Malawi

(2012) CHRISTOPHER CHIBWANA et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

How should we grow cities to minimize their biodiversity impacts?

(2012) Jessica R. Sushinsky et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Landscape-scale responses of birds to agri-environment management: a test of the English Environmental Stewardship scheme

(2012) David J. Baker et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

(2012) Nathaniel D. Mueller et al.   NATURE

Achieving yield gains in wheat

(2012) MATTHEW REYNOLDS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Bats in a Farming Landscape Benefit from Linear Remnants and Unimproved Pastures

(2012) Pia E. Lentini et al.   PLoS One

The Development of C4 Rice: Current Progress and Future Challenges

(2012) S. von Caemmerer et al.   SCIENCE

The future of livestock breeding: genomic selection for efficiency, reduced emissions intensity, and adaptation

(2012) Ben J. Hayes et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

A major shift to the retention approach for forestry can help resolve some global forest sustainability issues

(2012) D.B. Lindenmayer et al.   Conservation Letters

Amazonian countryside habitats provide limited avian conservation value

(2011) Simon P. Mahood et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Minimising the harm to biodiversity of producing more food globally

(2011) Ben Phalan et al.   FOOD POLICY

Agricultural intensification, priming for persistence and the emergence of Nipah virus: a lethal bat-borne zoonosis

(2011) J. R. C. Pulliam et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity

(2011) Luke Gibson et al.   NATURE

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) links biodiversity conservation with sustainable improvements in livelihoods and food production

(2011) D. Lewis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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 food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

(2011) D. Tilman 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

Agriculture-a key element for conservation in the developing world

(2011) Hugh L. Wright et al.   Conservation Letters

Sustaining biodiversity conservation in human-modified landscapes in the Western Ghats: Remnant forests matter

(2010) M.O. Anand et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biodiversity Differences between Managed and Unmanaged Forests: Meta-Analysis of Species Richness in Europe

(2010) YOAN PAILLET et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Cocoa Intensification Scenarios and Their Predicted Impact on CO2 Emissions, Biodiversity Conservation, and Rural Livelihoods in the Guinea Rain Forest of West Africa

(2010) Jim Gockowski et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Possible changes to arable crop yields by 2050

(2010) K. W. Jaggard et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Solar-powered drip irrigation enhances food security in the Sudano-Sahel

(2010) J. Burney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

(2010) H. C. J. Godfray et al.   SCIENCE

Wildlife-friendly oil palm plantations fail to protect biodiversity effectively

(2010) David P. Edwards et al.   Conservation Letters

Environmental Justice

(2009) Paul Mohai et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Changing Drivers of Deforestation and New Opportunities for Conservation

(2009) THOMAS K. RUDEL et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Comparing different forest zoning options for landscape-scale management of the boreal forest: Possible benefits of the TRIAD

(2009) Pascal Côté et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The role of plantations in managing the world's forests in the Anthropocene

(2009) Alain Paquette et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Do increases in agricultural yield spare land for nature?

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

A framework for assessing the biodiversity and fishery aspects of marine reserves

(2009) Phillip S. Levin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis

(2009) SE Lester et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Rebuilding Global Fisheries

(2009) B. Worm et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Agroecosystems

(2008) Ivette Perfecto et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Plantation forests and biodiversity: oxymoron or opportunity?

(2008) Eckehard G. Brockerhoff et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Marine reserve effects on fishery profit

(2008) Crow White et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Micro-dosing as a pathway to Africa’s Green Revolution: evidence from broad-scale on-farm trials

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