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The potential is certainly there. As well as liberating land for wildlife, there can be zones used for growing food using agroecological farming methods, which can also provide habitat for a variety of wildlife & locations for housing.
FYI, when you write "research has shown" please provide a weblink too that research, so that people that haven't read the relevant research & or science-based report can read it.
Fundamentally, mono-industrial farming is unsustainable.
@empiricism @silence7 Oxford academic Joseph Poore reported his research in this video https://www.youtube.com/live/zBi8QIc1qXg?feature=share. See also https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf and https://animal.law.harvard.edu/.../Eating-Away-at-Climate