Global urbanization and food production in direct competition for land: Leverage places to mitigate impacts on SDG2 and on the Earth System

Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security

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The Global Water Grabbing Syndrome

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Impact of environment on people’s everyday experiences in Stockholm

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Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

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Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

(2018) Marco Springmann et al.   NATURE

Rewiring food systems to enhance human health and biosphere stewardship

(2017) Line J Gordon et al.   Environmental Research Letters

A global analysis of land take in cropland areas and production displacement from urbanization

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Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica

(2017) Timothy A. Kohler et al.   NATURE

Global scenarios of urban density and its impacts on building energy use through 2050

(2017) Burak Güneralp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Opinion: Smart farming is key to developing sustainable agriculture

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Threats to sustainable development posed by land and water grabbing

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Processes of Participation in the Development of Urban Food Strategies: A Comparative Assessment of Exeter and Eindhoven

(2017) Aniek Hebinck et al.   Sustainability

Agropastoralism and Household Ecology in Yucatán After the Spanish Invasion

(2017) Rani T. Alexander et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability

(2016) Johan Rockström et al.   AMBIO

Effective radiative forcing from historical land use change

(2016) Timothy Andrews et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Teleconnected food supply shocks

(2016) Christopher Bren d’Amour et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Soil in the City: Sustainably Improving Urban Soils

(2016) Kuldip Kumar et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

(2016) Christopher Bren d’Amour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hidden linkages between urbanization and food systems

(2016) K. C. Seto et al.   SCIENCE

The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

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Modeling Urban Expansion in Bangkok Metropolitan Region Using Demographic–Economic Data through Cellular Automata-Markov Chain and Multi-Layer Perceptron-Markov Chain Models

(2016) Chudech Losiri et al.   Sustainability

Urban Gardeners’ Motivations in a Metropolitan City: The Case of Milan

(2016) Giordano Ruggeri et al.   Sustainability

Contributing to food security in urban areas: differences between urban agriculture and peri-urban agriculture in the Global North

(2015) Ina Opitz et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

Forest transitions in Eastern Europe and their effects on carbon budgets

(2015) Tobias Kuemmerle et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Urbanization and agricultural land loss in India: Comparing satellite estimates with census data

(2015) Bhartendu Pandey et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

A strategy for marginal semiarid degraded soil restoration: A sole addition of compost at a high rate. A five-year field experiment

(2015) T. Hernández et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The Accelerated Urbanization Process: A Threat to Soil Resources in Eastern China

(2015) Jiadan Li et al.   Sustainability

Land-cover change analysis in 50 global cities by using a combination of Landsat data and analysis of grid cells

(2014) Hasi Bagan et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The impacts of food price and income shocks on household food security and economic well-being: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

(2014) Sonia Akter et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

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

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Biocultural Refugia: Combating the Erosion of Diversity in Landscapes of Food Production

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Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption: quantifying dependences of countries on food imports due to domestic land and water constraints

(2013) Marianela Fader et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Resilience refused. Wasted potentials for improving food security in Dhaka

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Urban green commons: Insights on urban common property systems

(2013) Johan Colding et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Global land and water grabbing

(2013) M. C. Rulli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use

(2013) Patrick Meyfroidt et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Beyond ‘land sparing versus land sharing’: environmental heterogeneity, globalization and the balance between agricultural production and nature conservation

(2013) Ricardo Grau et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Land Sparing Versus Land Sharing: Moving Forward

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Urban gardens, agriculture, and water management: Sources of resilience for long-term food security in cities

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An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries

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Civic ecology: a pathway for Earth Stewardship in cities

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We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People … and Still Can't End Hunger

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Urban land teleconnections and sustainability

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global changes in diets and the consequences for land requirements for food

(2012) T. Kastner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

‘Planetary boundaries’—exploring the challenges for global environmental governance

(2012) Victor Galaz et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation

(2012) Deepak K. Ray et al.   Nature Communications

The impact of global land-cover change on the terrestrial water cycle

(2012) Shannon M. Sterling et al.   Nature Climate Change

Delivering food security without increasing pressure on land

(2012) Pete Smith   Global Food Security-Agriculture Policy Economics and Environment

Solutions for a cultivated planet

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

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

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Edible backyards: a qualitative study of household food growing and its contributions to food security

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Social–ecological memory in urban gardens—Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services

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Urbanization and its implications for food and farming

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Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s

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Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

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

Reconciling biodiversity conservation and food security: scientific challenges for a new agriculture

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Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat

(2009) David. S. Battisti et al.   SCIENCE

The Nature of Urban Soils and Their Role in Ecological Restoration in Cities

(2008) Mitchell A. Pavao-Zuckerman   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

The Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities

(2008) M. Batty   SCIENCE