agricultural expansion
Spreading crop territory
Agricultural expansion is the process of converting land to farming use, typically by clearing forests, draining wetlands, or cultivating previously unused terrain.
The term appears most often in discussions of environmental impact: Agricultural expansion in the Amazon threatens biodiversity.
It may also describe intensification of existing farmland through irrigation or technology.
- fieldArea of specialty
- population growthIncrease in inhabitants over time
- food securityGuaranteed adequate nutrition access
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
- palm oil plantationsLarge-scale tropical oilseed farms
invasive species · habitat loss · land clearing · pollution · rural development · frontier · seed · shifting cultivation · desertification · habitat fragmentation · greenhouse gas emissions · soil · monocropping · mechanized farming · climate change · hoe · biodiversity loss · furrow
agricultural expansionurbanization
Population shift toward cities
urban sprawl · industrialization · urban development · suburbanization · suburban expansion
agricultural expansionrewilding
Restoring natural ecosystems
reforestation · habitat restoration · conservation · afforestation · ecological restoration