Agrobiodiversity conservation enables sustainable and equitable land sparing
Sophie Jago, James S. Borrell
Abstract
Intensifying agriculture to spare land for nature could help meet competing food security and biodiversity conservation goals. However, this approach neglects and undervalues agrobiodiversity, currently maintained by millions of smallholder farmers. For intensification to be sustainable and land sparing to be achieved equitably, we must conserve high-agrobiodiversity landscapes.
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Agricultural biodiversityFood securityBiodiversityBiodiversity conservationAgricultureBusinessSpare partAgroforestrySustainable agricultureEnvironmental resource managementSustainabilityNatural resource economicsEnvironmental planningGeographyEconomicsEnvironmental scienceEcologyBiologyArchaeologyMarketingAgriculture, Land Use, Rural DevelopmentConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource ManagementAgricultural Innovations and Practices