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

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 24; no. 5; pp. 2212 - 2228
• Main Authors: Egli, Lukas, Meyer, Carsten, Scherber, Christoph, Kreft, Holger, Tscharntke, Teja
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2018
• Subjects: Agricultural economics; Agricultural land; Agricultural products; Agriculture - methods; Animals; Arbitration; Biodiversity; biodiversity conservation; Biodiversity loss; calorie self‐sufficiency; Capacity; Conflicts; Conservation; cropland; Crops, Agricultural; data collection; Distribution; Economic development; Economics; Food security; Food sovereignty; Food Supply; global change; Governance; Habitats; Humans; Information processing; Intensive farming; International Cooperation; land governance; land sparing; land use; land use and land cover maps; Land use planning; Landscape; land‐use change; land‐use models; Mitigation; Optimization; planning; political ecology; politics; Security; Spatial distribution; spatial prioritization; Sustainable development; Sustainable Development - methods; vertebrates; Wildlife conservation; political ecology; land-use models; spatial prioritization; land governance; land-use change; calorie self-sufficiency; land sparing

Closing yield gaps within existing croplands, and thereby avoiding further habitat conversions, is a prominently and controversially discussed strategy to meet the rising demand for agricultural products, while minimizing biodiversity impacts. The agricultural intensification associated with such a...