Course 3: Protect and Restore Natural Ecosystems and Limit Agricultural Land-Shifting (Synthesis) | World Resources Institute Research

This course focuses on the land-management efforts that must complement food demand-reduction efforts and productivity gains to avoid the harms of agricultural land expansion. One guiding principle is the need to make land-use decisions that enhance efficiency for all purposes—not just agriculture but also carbon storage and other ecosystem services. Another principle is the need to explicitly link efforts to boost agricultural yield gains with protection of natural lands. Merely eliminating the need for a net expansion of agricultural land will not avoid all carbon and ecosystem losses because agricultural land is not merely expanding, it is also shifting. At a regional level, agricultural land is shifting from developed to developing countries.53 One reason is that growth in population and food demand is mostly occurring in developing countries. Rising food demand in sub-Saharan Africa, for example, is likely to drive cropland expansion of 100 Mha between 2010 and 2050, even allowing

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