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View our work on COVID-19 vaccinationsHow much cropland has the world spared due to increases in crop yields?
Land sparing is calculated as the amount of additional land that would have been needed to meet crop production in 2019 if global average crop yields had not
increased since 1961.
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- Agricultural area over the long-term
- Agricultural land per capita
- Agricultural land use per person
- Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops (1961 = 1)
- Arable land use per person
- Change of cereal yield and land used for cereal production
- Cropland extent over the long-run
- Cropland per capita
- Cropland per capita vs. population density
- Cropland per person over the long-term
- Cropland use over the long-term
- Dietary land use vs. GDP per capita
- FAO projections of arable land
- Global agricultural land use by major crop type
- Global land spared as a result of cereal yield improvements
- Grazing land use over the long-term
- Land use vs. yield change in cereal production
- Organic agricultural area
- Peaking farmland: global arable and permanent crop area and Ausubel (2013) projections of peak farmland
- Projections for global peak agricultural land
- Share of arable land which is organic
- Share of global habitable land needed for agriculture if everyone had the diet of...
- Share of land area used for agriculture
- Share of land area used for arable agriculture
- Share of land used for permanent meadows and pastures
- Tractors per 100 square kilometres of arable land