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  • Agricultural area over the long-term
  • Agricultural land per capita
  • Agricultural land use
  • Agricultural land use per person
  • Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops
  • Arable land use per person
  • Area of land needed to meet global vegetable oil demand
  • Breakdown of habitable land area
  • Change in cereal production, yield, land use and population
  • Commodity-driven deforestation
  • Contribution to global mean surface temperature rise from agriculture and land use
  • Coverage of wetlands
  • Cropland and pasture per person
  • Cropland area
  • Cropland extent over the long-term
  • Cropland per person over the long-term
  • Dietary land use vs. GDP per capita
  • Extent of extensive agriculture
  • Extent of foraging, hunting and gathering
  • Extent of intensive agriculture
  • Extent of pastoralism
  • FAO projections of arable land
  • Global agricultural land use by major crop type
  • Global cropland is still increasing
  • Global land spared as a result of cereal yield improvements
  • Global land use since 10,000 BCE
  • Grazing land use over the long-term
  • Has the world passed peak agricultural land?
  • How much cropland has the world spared due to increases in crop yields?
  • How much global land is used as pasture for livestock?
  • Is agricultural land expanding? Change over the prior decade
  • Land area in hectares
  • Land area in square kilometres
  • Land area per crop type
  • Land use
  • Land use for palm oil production
  • Land use for vegetable oil crops
  • Land use of foods per 1000 kilocalories
  • Land use over the long-term
  • Land use per 100 grams of protein
  • Land use per kilogram of food product
  • Land use vs. yield change in cereal production
  • Land used for agriculture
  • Organic agricultural area
  • Projections for global peak agricultural land
  • Share of adults who perceive their rights to land as secure
  • Share of adults with legal documentation of their rights to land
  • Share of arable land which is organic
  • Share of deforestation that is driven by domestic consumption
  • 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 covered by lakes and rivers
  • Share of land defined as natural habitat
  • Share of land used for permanent meadows and pastures
  • Share of mountain land that is degraded
  • Share of rural land area where the elevation is 5 meters or less
  • Share of world regions with land use present
  • Terrain Ruggedness Index
  • Tractors per 100 square kilometers of arable land
  • Tree cover loss by dominant driver

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