New, groundbreaking research shows how, at a local scale, agricultural research and development led to improved crop ...

Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other parts of the world – and this ...

A paper, "Telecoupled impacts of Russia-Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity," in Nature Sustainability examines how restricting food exports from Ukraine and Russia can spur ...

These CGIAR technologies also significantly reduced cropland use, greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. The researchers generated their results with Purdue's global model of agriculture ...

“Expanding cropland into forests, that’s obviously not good from a biodiversity perspective because forests are great at supporting all kinds of species, but if it’s leading to improved food security, ...

The biodiversity-ecosystem services relationship ... which has had a big influence on the landscape. For instance, cropland and pastures now occupy approximately 40% of the Earth's land surface ...

So it is quite a long, complicated chain, with many adverse impacts on biodiversity along the way”, adds Dr Harwatt. These three grains take up “40 percent of global cropland”, according to ...

A soil carbon developer has partnered with a Texas land trust to protect 6,300 acres (2,550 hectares) of grassland from being converted into cropland while generating thousands of carbon credits, ...

Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other parts of the world—and this could drive an even steeper decline in the planet's species, according to a team ...