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

2016/01/04 by Anthony Lamb, Rhys E. Green, Rhys Green +28 · 220 citations
Environmental Science · #Agricultural land #Agriculture #Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact #Climate change mitigation #Ecology #Economics #Environmental Impact and Sustainability #Environmental protection #Environmental science #Greenhouse gas #Land use #Natural resource economics #Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/nclimate2910

published in Nature Climate Change 6(5), 488-492 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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