Changes in population growth, consumption and farming begin to return former farmlands to nature
Monday, December 24, 2012 - 05:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org)—With the global population racing past seven billion, demographers and world leaders have been concerned with depletion of resources to support everyone. The future, though, may be less bleak than some have feared. Changes in population growth and how farmers use land have brought the world to "peak farmland," a team of Rockefeller University scientists report in a special issue of the journal Population and Development Review.