Beyond organic farming–harnessing biodiversity-friendly landscapes

T Tscharntke, I Grass, TC Wanger, C Westphal… - Trends in ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
We challenge the widespread appraisal that organic farming is the fundamental alternative
to conventional farming for harnessing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Certification of …

Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture

Y Yang, D Tilman, Z **, P Smith, CB Barrett, YG Zhu… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Agriculture's global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding,
driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights …

Safe and just Earth system boundaries

J Rockström, J Gupta, D Qin, SJ Lade, JF Abrams… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The stability and resilience of the Earth system and human well-being are inseparably
linked,–, yet their interdependencies are generally under-recognized; consequently, they …

Complex agricultural landscapes host more biodiversity than simple ones: A global meta-analysis

N Estrada-Carmona, AC Sánchez, R Remans… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Managing agricultural landscapes to support biodiversity conservation requires profound
structural changes worldwide. Often, discussions are centered on management at the field …

Joint environmental and social benefits from diversified agriculture

LV Rasmussen, I Grass, Z Mehrabi, OM Smith… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of
agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed …

Land use and ecological change: A 12,000-year history

EC Ellis - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Human use of land has been transforming Earth's ecology for millennia. From hunting and
foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human …

Functional connectivity of the world's protected areas

A Brennan, R Naidoo, L Greenstreet, Z Mehrabi… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Global policies call for connecting protected areas (PAs) to conserve the flow of animals and
genes across changing landscapes, yet whether global PA networks currently support …

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: what it does and does not do, and how to improve it

AC Hughes, RE Grumbine - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) marks one of the most
ambitious environmental agreements of the 21st century. Yet despite the ambition, and the …

A just world on a safe planet: a Lancet Planetary Health–Earth Commission report on Earth-system boundaries, translations, and transformations

J Gupta, X Bai, DM Liverman, J Rockström… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The health of the planet and its people are at risk. The deterioration of
the global commons—ie, the natural systems that support life on Earth—is exacerbating …

Demystifying ecological connectivity for actionable spatial conservation planning

M Beger, A Metaxas, AC Balbar, JA McGowan… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Connectivity underpins the persistence of life; it needs to inform biodiversity conservation
decisions. Yet, when prioritising conservation areas and develo** actions, connectivity is …