ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2025
Sustainable high-yield farming is essential for bending the curve of biodiversity loss.
Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Pathbreak: A Biodiversity-Food-Governance Game for experiential reimagination of social-environmental futures.npj biodiversity · 2026Review
- A global assessment of animal community responses to agricultural management.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Trade-offs between nature and people in Ethiopia's protected areas demonstrate challenges in translating global conservation targets into national realities.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Are Alternative Crops Needed for Future Sustainable Food Production?Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer for crops.NPJ sustainable agriculture · 2026Article
- Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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- Beyond yields: a systems approach is essential for reconciling agriculture and biodiversity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- How should we bend the curve of biodiversity loss to build a just and sustainable future?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Food production does more damage to wild species than any other sector of human activity, yet how best to limit its growing impact is greatly contested. Reviewing progress to date in interventions that encourage less damaging diets or cut food loss and waste, we conclude that both are essential but far from sufficient. In terms of production, field studies from five continents quantifying the population-level impacts of land sharing, land sparing, intermediate and mixed approaches for almost 2000 individually assessed species show that implementing high-yield farming to spare natural habitats consistently outperforms land sharing, particularly for species of highest conservation concern. Sparing also offers considerable potential for mitigating climate change. Delivering land sparing nevertheless raises several important challenges-in particular, identifying and promoting higher yielding farm systems that are less environmentally harmful than current industrial agriculture, and devising mechanisms to limit rebound effects and instead tie yield gains to habitat conservation. Progress will depend on conservationists forging novel collaborations with the agriculture sector. While this may be challenging, we suggest that without it there is no realistic prospect of slowing biodiversity loss.This article is part of the discussion meeting issue 'Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace's legacy for a biodiverse future'.
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