How Much Land Can Ten Billion People Spare for Nature?

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February 1, 1994
Task Force Report

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62300/w69qgv54

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Advances in farming technology combined with changing values and diets could ensure that the world's population will use existing cropland more economically and thus save more land for natural or wilderness use in the next 50 years.

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