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- What they find in their analysis is hard to debate: plant-based agriculture generates around 1.5 trillion more pounds of “product” than animal agriculture. And it does so more efficiently. This is because plant-based agriculture uses 115 million acres less land.
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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.
Mar 17, 2021 · Using data and figures from Ourworldindata.org and the World Resources Institute, we demonstrate how agricultural land use could be dramatically reduced if we switched to plant-based diets. Agriculture takes up around 50% of all habitable land, equal to roughly 50 million square kilometers.
- 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...
Mar 22, 2017 · agriculture utilizes 115 million acres less than animal-based agriculture. In t erms of value/sales, animal- based agriculture generates $35 billion more than plant-based...
Jan 19, 2022 · The world’s climate-stressed and pollution-degraded farming and agricultural system must shift quickly to sustainable practices to feed an additional 2 billion mouths expected by 2050, a new United Nations report finds.
Nov 23, 2020 · Eat nutritious plant-rich diets. Currently, the average meat intake for someone living in a high-income country is 200-250g a day – far higher than the 80-90g recommended by the United Nations, and ten-fold that of lower-income countries. Livestock takes up nearly 80% of global agricultural land, is a leading cause of tropical forest clearing ...
