Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared

By B. Phalan, Malvika Onial, A. Balmford, R. Green. Science, 2011

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Subfields: Forestry, Global and Planetary Change

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Optimizing agri-environment schemes for biodiversity, ecosystem services or both? (2014, background): “Our approach has similarities with models on land-sparing versus land-sharing (Green et al., 2005; Phalan et al., 2011), dealing with tradeoffs between biodiversity and yields.”
Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment (2018, background): “The “land sharing” versus “land sparing” debate is complex and requires site-specific solutions, which is why simplistic global prescriptions are inappropriate (Phalan et al. 2011, Tuck et al. 2014).”
Does intensification slow crop land expansion or encourage deforestation (2014, background): “…that may look like win-lose outcomes for agricultural production and the environment when viewed from a local perspective (e.g. Angelsen and Kaimowitz, 2001b) may actually be win-win or net win when analyzed at landscape scale (e.g. Phalan et al. 2011) or globally (e.g. Stevenson et al. 2013).”
Affluence drives the global displacement of land use (2013, background): “The other mechanism is certification schemes for sustainable bioresource use, such as those provided through the Marine Stewardship Council, the Forest Stewardship Council and various biofuels certification initiatives (Butchart et al., 2010; Phalan et al., 2011).”
Addressing future trade-offs between biodiversity and cropland expansion to improve food security (2016, background): “In addition, our study contributes to the land sharing versus sparing debate that generated a controversial discussion on the pressing problems of feeding a growing human population and conserving biodiversity (Fischer et al. 2008; Godfray 2011; Phalan et al. 2011; von Wehrden et al. 2014).”
Warring brothers: The complex interactions between wolves (Canis lupus) and dogs (Canis familiaris) in a conservation context (2014, neutral): “Thus, the current debates on land-sharing vs. land-sparing (Phalan et al., 2011) within conservation biology are probably as much motivated by the different values associated with the relative place of humans with respect to nature as with the efﬁciency of the strategies to conserve biodiversity.”
Research, part of a Special Feature on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Environmental Change Biocultural Refugia: Combating the Erosion of Diversity in Landscapes of Food Production (2013, background): “Responses to this article can be read online at: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/issues/responses. php/6207”
How well do we understand landscape effects on pollinators and pollination services (2012, background): “…in space) of landscape elements on agricultural production (Klein et al. 2003; De Marco & Coelho 2004; Ricketts et al. 2004, GemmillHerren & Ochieng 2008, Phalan et al. 2011), which indicates that unplanned changes in landscape pattern can reduce the productivity of pollinator-dependent crops.”
Retention Forestry to Maintain Multifunctional Forests: A World Perspective (2012, background): “Parallels can be drawn to conventional agricultural land use, which is currently intensively debated, especially in the tropics (e.g., Phalan et al. 2011).”
Prospects for Agricultural Sustainable Intensification: A Review of Research (2019, background): “Land sparing consists of separating land for conservation from land for crops, with high-yield farming facilitating the protection of remaining natural habitats from agricultural expansion [52].”