Believing that higher yields do not spare land would push investment away from the thing that actually protects wild habitat.

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• Higher yields alone do not protect habitat locally; they have to be paired with zoning, payments or certification or the land is cleared anyway. LBLinus Blomqvist13 Mar 2024
• The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes. LBLinus Blomqvist13 Mar 2024
• Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world. GMGeorge Monbiot4 Oct 2023
• Breaking the trade-off between prosperity and the environment is an opportunity rather than something that will happen on its own. HRHannah Ritchie9 Dec 2025
• It is false that the world needs no more food and only better distribution of the food it has. MGMichael Grunwald13 Jul 2025

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