Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 2844 - 10
• Main Authors: Zabel, Florian, Delzeit, Ruth, Schneider, Julia M., Seppelt, Ralf, Mauser, Wolfram, Václavík, Tomáš
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 28.06.2019; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/158; 704/172; 704/844; 706/1143; Agricultural land; Agricultural production; Agriculture - economics; Agriculture - methods; Biodiversity; Biodiversity hot spots; Climate Change; Conservation; Conservation of Natural Resources - methods; Energy crops; Expansion; Humanities and Social Sciences; Markets; Models, Economic; multidisciplinary; Pricing; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Supply & demand; Tropical environment; Tropical environments

With rising demand for biomass, cropland expansion and intensification represent the main strategies to boost agricultural production, but are also major drivers of biodiversity decline. We investigate the consequences of attaining equal global production gains by 2030, either by cropland expansion...