Whether higher yields spare land or take more of it depends on how open the market for the crop is, so staples spare land and globally traded crops often do not.

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• Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world. GMGeorge Monbiot4 Oct 2023similar wording
• The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes. LBLinus Blomqvist13 Mar 2024similar wording
• An economy running on muscle power has a hard and low ceiling on total production, because its only real input is land and the returns to more of it fall away fast. BDBret Devereaux26 Aug 2022similar wording
• Believing that higher yields do not spare land would push investment away from the thing that actually protects wild habitat. LBLinus Blomqvist13 Mar 2024similar wording
• 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 2024similar wording

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