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• Agricultural area over the long-term
• Agricultural land per capita
• Agricultural land use
• Agricultural land use per personLong-run estimates
• Agriculture-driven deforestation
• 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
• Area of permanent meadows and pastures
• Breakdown of habitable land area
• Change in cereal production, yield, land use and population
• 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 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
• Pig production: Land use vs. cost to animal welfare
• 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 that is degraded
• Share of land used for permanent meadows and pastures
• Share of mountain land that is degraded
• Share of world regions with land use present
• Terrain Ruggedness Index
• Tree cover loss by dominant driver
• Woodland area by type