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     • Almost half (44%) of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture.1 In total, it is an area of 48 million square kilometers (km2). That’s around five times the size of the United States.2 Croplands comprise one-third of agricultural land, and grazing land comprises two-thirds.3
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     Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture

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   How much land is used for agriculture?

   • Despite this uncertainty, most analyses tend to conclude that close to half of habitable land is used for agriculture. The land area of the United States is around 9.2 million km2. Multiplied by 5, gives us 46 million km2. Note that when inland water bodies and coastal waters are included, the surface area of the US is 9.8 million km2.

   Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture

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   How much land is available for cropping in 2020?

   • The area of land available for cropping saw a slight fall of 0.2% in 2020 and remains at just over 4.9 million. The croppable area consists of cereals, oilseeds, potatoes, other arable crops, horticultural crops, uncropped arable land and temporary grassland.

   Farming Statistics Land Use, Livestock Populations and Agricultural

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   What percentage of agricultural land is used for livestock?

   • If we combine global grazing land with the amount of cropland used for animal feed, livestock accounts for 80% of agricultural land use. The vast majority of the world’s agricultural land is used to raise livestock for meat and dairy. Crops for humans account for 16%. And non-food crops for biofuels and textiles come to 4%.5

   Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture

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   What is the total utilised agricultural area in the UK?

   • The total utilised agricultural area in the UK decreased by 2.3% to just over 17.0 million hectares in 2023 and accounts for 70% of the total UK land area. Figure 1 shows that the total utilised agricultural area has remained between 17 and 18 million hectares since 2003. Figure 1: Total utilised agricultural area in the United Kingdom at 1 June

   Agricultural Land Use in United Kingdom at 1 June 2023

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   What is utilised agricultural area?

   • The utilised agricultural area is made up of all arable and horticultural crops, uncropped arable land, land used for outdoor pigs, temporary and permanent grassland and common rough grazing. The total utilised agricultural area in the UK decreased by 2.3% to just over 17.0 million hectares in 2023 and accounts for 70% of the total UK land area.

   Agricultural Land Use in United Kingdom at 1 June 2023

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   Does agriculture consume a lot of land?

   • It's important to note that this metric includes both land used for arable (cropland) production and pasture land for livestock grazing; this means that agriculture can consume a large share of land area, even in arid and semi-arid regions where extensive arable farming is not possible.

   Land Use - Our World in Data

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3. www.gov.uk › government › statisticsAgricultural Land Use in United Kingdom at 1 June 2023

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   Dec 14, 2023 · The utilised agricultural area (UAA) is 17.0 million hectares in 2023 and accounts for 70% of the total area of the UK. The total croppable area is just over 6.0 million hectares in 2023 and...

4. ourworldindata.org › land-useLand Use - Our World in Data

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   Land use by crop. In the chart here, we see the global area of land use in agriculture by major crop types from 1961 onwards. Overall, we see that the majority of our arable land is used for cereal production; this has grown by around 70 million hectares — an area roughly twice the size of Germany.

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6. www.gov.uk › government › publicationsFarming evidence - key statistics (accessible version) - GOV.UK

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   Sep 16, 2024 · In 2023, 133,000 hectares of UK agricultural land was used to produce bioenergy crops, an increase of around 43% since 2015. This accounted for 2.2% of arable area.

7. ourworldindata.org › global-land-for-agricultureHalf of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture

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   Feb 16, 2024 · Croplands — used for direct human food and non-food uses such as biofuels — are as large as China's land area. The world can use much less land for farming. The long-run historical trend of expanding farmland does not have to continue. There are ways that we can cut agricultural land use — by a lot.

8. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk › governmentFarming statistics - final crop areas, yields, livestock ...

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   The total utilised agricultural area (UAA) in the UK has decreased by 1.5% to just under 17.3 million hectares. The area of total crops and permanent grassland have also seen decreases, whereas...

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9. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk › governmentFarming Statistics Land Use, Livestock Populations and ...

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   The area of land available for cropping saw a slight fall of 0.2% in 2020 and remains at just over 4.9 million. The croppable area consists of cereals, oilseeds, potatoes, other arable crops,...

10. www.gov.uk › agricultural-land-use-in-englandAgricultural land use in England - GOV.UK

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    Sep 29, 2022 · This publication gives estimates of land use, crop areas and land ownership for England from the Survey of Agriculture and Horticulture run by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural ...