The challenge of feeding the world while conserving half the planet

Zia Mehrabi (), Erle C. Ellis and Navin Ramankutty
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Zia Mehrabi: University of British Columbia
Erle C. Ellis: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Navin Ramankutty: University of British Columbia

Nature Sustainability, 2018, vol. 1, issue 8, 409-412

Abstract: Abstract Amid widespread concerns about biodiversity loss, a single clear conservation message is engaging leading conservationists: the proposal to give half the surface of the Earth back to nature. Depending on the landscape conservation strategy, we find that, globally, 15–31% of cropland, 10–45% of pasture land, 23–25% of non-food calories and 3–29% of food calories from crops could be lost if half of Earth’s terrestrial ecoregions were given back to nature.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0119-8

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