The potential for land sparing to offset greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

Reducing agricultural emissions during times of increasing food demand is a challenge. Research, using the UK as an example, now shows the technical mitigation potential of increasing agricultural yields, reducing farmed area and restoring habitats.

Keywords

3002 Agriculture, Land and Farm Management, 30 Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences, 13 Climate Action, 2 Zero Hunger

Journal Title

Nature Climate Change

Journal ISSN

1758-678X
1758-6798

Volume Title

6

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publisher DOI

https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2910

Rights and licensing

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Sponsorship

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/M007693/1)

This research was funded by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Collaborative Fund for Conservation and we thank its major sponsor Arcadia. We thank J. Bruinsma for the provision of demand data, the CEH for the provision of soil data and J. Spencer for invaluable discussions. A.L. was supported by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

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