Linus Blomqvist
Person on 2 sites
Environmental researcher; writes on land use, agriculture and whether decoupling human welfare from nature is possible.
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Bluesky: @linusblomqvist.com (opens bsky.app)
“New paper on the impacts of management and organic/conventional ag on soils:”
- Site: linusblomqvist.com (opens linusblomqvist.com)
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Bluesky: @linusblomqvist.com (opens bsky.app)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world. (opens korrents.com)
“In other words, land sparing almost always occurs—it is just a question of where.”
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Without the yield improvements of the last half-century the world would have cleared more than twice as much cropland. (opens korrents.com)
“Without yield improvements, therefore, we would have seen more than double the cropland expansion.”
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The claim that higher yields backfire and end up increasing farmland is much weaker than the literature assumes. (opens korrents.com)
“In sum, land sparing is common at the local level and the norm at the global scale, in contrast to recent appeals to Jevons' paradox.”
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Raising yields on land already farmed is what keeps farming from taking more of the wild world. (opens korrents.com)