Social Sustainability
Sustainable Intensification
Producing more food from the same land while reducing environmental harm — agriculture's attempt to square yield with ecology.
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Sustainable intensification is increasing agricultural output per unit of land, water and inputs while reducing environmental impacts and maintaining the natural resource base — "producing more from less". Developed from the original intensification concept by Pretty and others in the 1990s and adopted by the FAO and UK policy, it emphasises precision input use, improved genetics, agroecological practices and soil health over simple input expansion.
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