There is an ongoing debate about how best to feed the growing world population in the long
run and associated implications for research and development. Some call for a new Green …

The eighteenth-century Malthusian prediction of population growth outstripping food
production has not yet come to bear. Unprecedented agricultural land expansions since …

Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

Abstract The Action Plan for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Legal
Amazon (PPCDAm), launched in 2004, promoted a drastic conservation reform in Brazil. To …

Scientists and policy-makers globally are calling for alternative approaches to conventional
intensification of agriculture that enhance ecosystem services provided by biodiversity. The …

Reducing global poverty and addressing climate change and other environmental crises are
among the most important challenges facing humanity today. This review discusses one way …

The human population is projected to reach 11 billion this century, with the greatest
increases in tropical developing nations. This growth, in concert with rising per-capita …

Strategic planning for global agricultural R&D is hampered by a lack of comparable data on
target populations. Surprisingly, even the global number of crop-specific farms are …

Conservation biologists are devoting an increasing amount of energy to debating whether
land sparing (high‐yielding agriculture on a small land footprint) or land sharing (low …

We analyzed crop production, physical inputs, and land use at the country level to assess
technological changes behind the threefold increase in global crop production from 1961 to …