From one piece Raising Agricultural Yields Spares Land 8 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world.Their words
In other words, land sparing almost always occurs—it is just a question of where.
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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.
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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.
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The case for raising yields, especially among smallholders, is humanitarian as much as environmental.Their words
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.
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Making American farms more productive shrinks cropland in the rest of the world by more than it adds at home.Their words
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%.
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Claims to the contrary could lead to a misallocation of investments and, consequently, worse environmental (and social) outcomes.
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The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes.Their words
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.
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Without yield improvements, therefore, we would have seen more than double the cropland expansion.