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Arable land is defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops, temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land
temporarily fallow. It is measured in hectares per person.
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- Agricultural land use
- Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (1961 = 1)
- Area of land needed to meet global vegetable oil demand
- Cropland extent over the long-run
- Extent of extensive agriculture
- Extent of foraging, hunting and gathering
- Extent of intensive agriculture
- Extent of pastoralism
- Global land use since 10,000BC
- How much cropland has the world spared due to increases in crop yields?
- 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
- Rural land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)
- Share of world regions with land use present
- Terrain Ruggedness Index
- cereal production, yield and land use