Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies

By T. Garnett, M. Appleby, A. Balmford, Ian J. Bateman, T. Benton, P. Bloomer, B. Burlingame, M. Dawkins, Liam Dolan, D. Fraser and 7 more. Science, 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Animal welfare and efficient farming: is conflict inevitable? (2017, background): “Livestock farming is under increasing pressure to become more efficient and more sustainably intensive (Garnett et al. 2013) to meet the twin demands of climate change mitigation and feeding the 9 (or even 11) billion people who are projected to be alive in 2050 (Godfray et al. 2010).”
LivestockPlus - The sustainable intensification of forage-based agricultural systems to improve livelihoods and ecosystem services in the tropics * (2015, positive): “LivestockPlus abides by the premises of sustainable intensification proposed by Garnett et al. (2013) of increasing food production through higher yields, while emphasizing food security and environmental sustainability.”
Promoting sustainable intensification in precision agriculture: review of decision support systems development and strategies (2016, background): “A commonly used concept in agricultural research is sustainable intensiﬁca-tion, which has the overreaching goal to increase food production from existing farmland while minimizing the pressure on the environment (Garnett et al. 2013).”
Bioenergy, Food Production and Biodiversity – An Unlikely Alliance? (2015, background): “Novel landscape management strategies will therefore need to be developed at local, national and global scales (Garnett et al., 2013), but unfortunately few mechanisms are currently in place to ensure that land use policy and practice is developed in an evidence-based way.”
Addressing future trade-offs between biodiversity and cropland expansion to improve food security (2016, background): “Despite the negative externalities of cropland expansion and continuing calls for sustainable intensification (Garnett et al. 2013; Tilman 1999; West et al. 2014), the future expansion of agricultural land is still considered to be a likely scenario (see, e.g., the OECD/FAO Agricultural Outlook).”
Climate Change Impacts on Water and Agriculture Sectors in Southern Africa: Threats and Opportunities for Sustainable Development (2020, background): “The challenge for agriculture is to increase productivity on current arable land through efficient and sustainable management of water and other resources and reducing pressure on the environment [41].”
Transitions in European land-management regimes between 1800 and 2010 (2015, background): “, 2013), and intensification is expected to become the dominant future land change (Tilman et al., 2011; Garnett et al., 2013).”