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Environmental science

the claim that raising crop yields spares land from conversion to farming, tested against observed changes in cultivated area.

In environmental science, Borlaug hypothesis refers to the claim that raising crop yields spares land from conversion to farming, tested against observed changes in cultivated area. This meaning comes from Rudel (2009) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Rudel, T. K., Schneider, L., Uriarte, M., Turner, B. L., DeFries, R., Lawrence, D., Geoghegan, J., Hecht, S., Ickowitz, A., Lambin, E. F., Birkenholtz, T., Baptista, S., & Grau, R. (2009). Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(49), 20675-20680. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0812540106

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