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Jul 4, 2017 · Farming Plants – A Comparison. A report from the Humane Party analyzes the land-use, efficiency, and profitability of animal farming versus plant farming. The fact that animal agriculture is much more resource intensive than plant agriculture has become fairly well known among animal advocates.
Oct 27, 2020 · Have you noticed a bumper crop of acorns this year? You’re not alone – it seems that across the UK, oak trees are having what’s known as a mast year. The bountiful harvest is a clever strategy to ensure the future generation of oak trees and it’s welcome food for wildlife too.
Aug 21, 2014 · This fascinating map from National Geographic shows the proportion of the world’s crops that are grown for direct human consumption (in green) versus all the crops that are grown for...
- Land Requirements by National Diets
- The Link Between Dietary Pressures and Prosperity
- Determinants of A Land-Intensive Diet
- Could Productivity Gains Give Us More Land?
- Individual Action to Reduce Land Use Requirements
Today, the world population uses approximately 50 percentof total habitable land for agriculture. How much of our habitable land would we need if the global population were to adopt the average diet of any given country? The results are presented in the map shown here. We have color-coded the map based on our current agricultural land requirements ...
Why are there such variations in dietary land requirements across the world? In the chart here we have plotted each country's HALF index (as represented in the map above) on the y-axis, against its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, on the x-axis. Overall we see that richer populations have larger dietary land requirements. Also shown on this...
Nonetheless, there are still large differences in dietary land requirements between countries of a similar income-level. Why, for example, is the requirement for a New Zealander more than double that of a UK citizen, despite them having similar levels of prosperity? Alexander et al. (2016) highlight that the types of foods we eat have a much strong...
The global-diet thought experiment we considered above has one important drawback: it is demand rather than supply-oriented, and does not account for the possibility of spared land from productivity gains. Yields have increased significantly over the past 50 years, allowing us to 'spare' land which would have otherwisebeen converted to agriculture....
Looking ahead, what can we do as individuals to reduce the land requirements of our diets? If we are to allow room for everyone in the world to attain diverse, nutritious diets whilst also reducing agricultural pressures, it's clear that high-income countries will have to adjust their average diets in order to reduce their relative impact. How do w...
Dec 20, 2022 · Research and development in North America and Europe have an outsized focus on crops that are largely not used directly for food, such as corn and soybeans which are often used for biofuels and animal feed, rather than crops more directly used as food such as wheat, barley and cassava.
Mar 4, 2021 · Research suggests that if everyone shifted to a plant-based diet, we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%. This large reduction of agricultural land use would be possible thanks to a reduction in land used for grazing and a smaller need for land to grow crops.
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Agricultural production is not only fundamental to improving nutrition, but is also the main source of income for many. Increases in crop production are key to ending hunger, as well as economic and social development. Global crop production has changed dramatically in recent decades.
