Global cropland could be almost halved: Assessment of land saving potentials under different strategies and implications for agricultural markets.

ABSTRACT: The pressure on land resources continuously increases not only with the rising demand for agricultural commodities, but also with the growing need for action on global challenges, such as biodiversity loss or climate change, where land plays a crucial role. Land saving as a strategy, where agricultural productivity is increased to allow a reduction of required cropland while sustaining production volumes and meeting demand, could address this trade-off. With our interdisciplinary model-based study, we globally assess regional potentials of land saving and analyze resulting effects on agricultural production, prices and trade. Thereby, different land saving strategies are investigated that (1) minimize required cropland (2) minimize spatial marginalization induced by land saving and (3) max

SUBMITTER: Schneider JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8863228 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature