Peak Farmland and the Prospect for Land Sparing

By J. Ausubel, I. Wernick, P. Waggoner. 2013

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Does intensification slow crop land expansion or encourage deforestation (2014, background): “Finally, the available evidence reviewed in this paper suggests that given likely rates of technological progress and future growth in demand for food, the world is still far from “peak cropland” as claimed by Ausubel et al. (2013).”
Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security. (2018, background): “This projection of peak cropland requires slower diet shifts toward meat consumption and the abandonment of biofuels or other non-food uses of crops (8).”
Globalization of land use: distant drivers of land change and geographic displacement of land use (2013, background): “Looking forward, factoring in slower population growth, favorable changes in food tastes, abandonment of biofuels, and continued improvement of technology, one study foresees a release of some 146 Mha of cropland to nature in 2050 [57].”
Reconciling food security and bioenergy: priorities for action (2017, background): “Despite ongoing population growth and deforestation, the total land area used to feed the world has remained steady since 1990 (Ausubel et al., 2013; FAOStat, 2015).”