Sustainable intensification is a concept of growing importance, yet it is in danger of becoming scientifically obsolete because of the diversity of meanings it has acquired. To avoid this, it is important to consider the various scales on which it can aid progress towards feeding human populations while also protecting the environment.
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This work was funded by Defra as part of the Sustainable Intensification Research Platform. Improvements to the manuscript were suggested by members of the SIP Science Conference 2016 and by B. Kunin, C. M. Jones, C. Marsh, Y. Gavish and D. Salgado.
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Gunton, R., Firbank, L., Inman, A. et al. How scalable is sustainable intensification?. Nature Plants 2, 16065 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.65
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