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Nov 21, 2018 7 tweets 4 min read
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Often, conservation competes with food production by promoting less intensive farming and/or unfarmed reserves

Given that food production is essential for human wellbeing, what’s the best way of reconciling this trade-off?

To share, or spare; that is the question Image 2 #BOU18TC

We compared land sharing and land sparing scenarios (+ intermediate ones) all of which, crucially, produce the *same amount of food* overall.

We also evaluated a ‘three compartment sparing’ scenario (far right) which combines elements of both sharing and sparing Image