Publication Date:
2011-03-02
Description:
Vermeulen and Wollenberg (1) caution against interpreting our recent paper (2) as a call to concentrate food production in temperate areas. We did not intend our research to be interpreted as such. As Vermeulen and Wollenberg state, even very low yields can play an extremely important role in providing food security, particularly in low-income tropical countries. We agree that it is important to make the distinction between yields and food security.As noted in our paper, the tradeoff between carbon and crop yields that results from expanding croplands is particularly strong in the tropics, where natural ecosystems generally store a lot...
Keywords:
Letters, Sustainability Science
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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