Global land use since 1,000BC

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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