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What is the land sparing-sharing continuum?

Walter Fraanje

Food Climate Research Network · 2018

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Summary

Agricultural production is responsible for the majority of global land use. The use of land to produce food almost always comes into conflict with goals for the conservation of nature and wildlife. This building block explains the land sparing-sharing continuum, which encompasses two fundamentally different approaches to balancing goals for food production and biodiversity conservation.

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Source report: Can regenerative agriculture deliver nutritious food and a just food system? (TABLE/Agile, 2025) File: Reckoning with Regeneration full report December 2025.pdf Original: Fraanje, Walter. "What is the land sparing-sharing continuum? | TableDebates." Food Climate Research Network, University of Oxford, 14 August 2018, https://doi.org/10.56661/4d83249a.Accessed5December2025.(FarmingandWildlifeAdvisoryGroupSouthWest)

Theme
Farming systems, soils & land use
Subject
Peer-reviewed research
Study type
Research
Source type
Peer-reviewed research
Status
Published
Geography
UK
DOI
10.56661/4d83249a
Catalogue ID
IRmohfq8ol-dd7a51
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