Projections for global peak agricultural land
Projected trends in global agricultural area extent by various sources, measured in hectares. Projections include those from the UN Food and Agricultural Organization(FAO), International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD); OECD, and scenarios from the Millennium EcosystemAssessment (MEA). Also shown is the actual agricultural area to 2014, as reported by the UN FAO.
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- Agricultural land use
- Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops
- Area of land needed to meet global vegetable oil demand
- Change in cereal production, yield, land use and population
- Extent of extensive agriculture
- Extent of foraging, hunting and gathering
- Extent of intensive agriculture
- Extent of pastoralism
- Global cropland is still increasing
- Global land use since 10,000 BCE
- Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
- How much cropland has the world spared due to increases in crop yields?
- How much global land is used as pasture for livestock?
- Is agricultural land expanding: the change over the prior decade
- Land area
- Land area per crop type
- Land use for palm oil production
- Land use of foods per 1000 kilocalories
- Land use per 100 grams of protein
- Land use per kilogram of food product
- Share of land defined as natural habitat
- Share of rural land area where the elevation is 5 meters or less
- Share of world regions with land use present
- Terrain Ruggedness Index