Linus Blomqvist

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  • Without the yield improvements of the last half-century the world would have cleared more than twice as much cropland.

    Without yield improvements, therefore, we would have seen more than double the cropland expansion.

    Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land Said 13 Mar 2024

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  • The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes.

    In sum, land sparing is common at the local level and the norm at the global scale, in contrast to recent appeals to Jevons' paradox.

    Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land Said 13 Mar 2024

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  • Believing that higher yields do not spare land would push investment away from the thing that actually protects wild habitat.

    Claims to the contrary could lead to a misallocation of investments and, consequently, worse environmental (and social) outcomes.

    Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land Said 13 Mar 2024

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  • Making American farms more productive shrinks cropland in the rest of the world by more than it adds at home.

    Nelson Villoria estimates that for every 1% gain in Total Factor Productivity (inputs required per unit of output) in the US, croplands in the rest of the world shrink by 0.7%.

    Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land Said 13 Mar 2024

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  • The case for raising yields, especially among smallholders, is humanitarian as much as environmental.

    What this also tells us is that, at the end of the day, the argument for boosting yields—especially among smallholder farmers—is not just environmental: it is humanitarian.

    Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land Said 13 Mar 2024

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  • Higher yields alone do not protect habitat locally; they have to be paired with zoning, payments or certification or the land is cleared anyway.

    Yield-boosting measures, however, always need to be thoughtfully paired with other measures to ensure that outcomes—environmental as well as social—are acceptable at the local level.

    Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land Said 13 Mar 2024

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  • Whether higher yields spare land or take more of it depends on how open the market for the crop is, so staples spare land and globally traded crops often do not.

    Therefore, land sparing is more likely to take place, even at the local level, when yields of staples go up. The situation is different for some internationally traded products like soy and palm oil.

    Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land Said 13 Mar 2024

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  • Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world.

    In other words, land sparing almost always occurs—it is just a question of where.

    Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land Said 13 Mar 2024

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  • Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world. 2 hold this

    In other words, land sparing almost always occurs—it is just a question of where.

    Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land Said 13 Mar 2024

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