Intensification

Agricultural intensification aims to increase food production through increased resource inputs. It "can be technically defined as an increase in agricultural production per unit of inputs (which may be labour, land, time, fertilizer, seed, feed or cash). For practical purposes, intensification occurs when there is an increase in the total volume of agricultural production that results from a higher productivity of inputs, or agricultural production is maintained while certain inputs are decreased." (Agricultural intensification, FAO, http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/j0902e/j0902e03.htm)