Population growth and loss of arable land

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Assessing global land use : balancing consumption with sustainable supply (2014, background): “There is evidence that urban growth is indeed taking a toll on agricultural lands and that loss of fertile plains and deltas are being accompanied by the conversion of other natural vegetation to farmland (Döös 2002).”
Review on the use of insects in the diet of farmed fish: Past and future (2015, background): “69 Moreover, the rapid growth in the human population has put pressure on the use of arable land (Doos, 2002), and 70 the ecological footprint of these protein-rich plants, related to the amount of energy and water necessary for their 71 production, may alter the sustainability of such alternatives…”
Socio-economic driving forces of arable land conversion: A case study of Wuxian City, China (2005, background): “Population increase arises a sequence of immediate life sustaining needs such as residence space, food and fiber (Engelman and LeRoy, 1995; Döös, 2002; Uusivuori et al., 2002).”
Multi-modality imagery database for plant phenotyping (2016, background): “Key to increasing yields is gaining understanding of the genetic mechanisms that influence plant growth [Döös, 2002].”