Current challenges in agricultural intensification and land use change in Latin America: land sparing, land sharing, rebound effect, and leakage.
Humanity faces a double threat: burgeoning food demand from a growing population and ecological degradation fueled by agricultural expansion. Crop production can be increased through cropland expansion (more land), and crop intensification (producing more per unit of cropland). Embracing sustainable intensification on existing agricultural land rather than the unsustainable quest for ever-greater acreage has been… Continue reading Current challenges in agricultural intensification and land use change in Latin America: land sparing, land sharing, rebound effect, and leakage.