Land use per kilogram of food product
Land use is measured in meters squared (m²) per kilogram of a given food product.
Land use per kilogram m² per kilogram
Food | 2010 |
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Apples | 0.63 m² |
Bananas | 1.93 m² |
Barley | 1.11 m² |
Beef (beef herd) | 326.21 m² |
Beef (dairy herd) | 43.24 m² |
Beet Sugar | 1.83 m² |
Berries & Grapes | 2.41 m² |
Brassicas | 0.55 m² |
Cane Sugar | 2.04 m² |
Cassava | 1.81 m² |
Cheese | 87.79 m² |
Citrus Fruit | 0.86 m² |
Coffee | 21.62 m² |
Dark Chocolate | 68.96 m² |
Eggs | 6.27 m² |
Fish (farmed) | 8.41 m² |
Groundnuts | 9.11 m² |
Lamb & Mutton | 369.81 m² |
Maize | 2.94 m² |
Milk | 8.95 m² |
Nuts | 12.96 m² |
Oatmeal | 7.60 m² |
Onions & Leeks | 0.39 m² |
Other Fruit | 0.89 m² |
Other Pulses | 15.57 m² |
Other Vegetables | 0.38 m² |
Peas | 7.46 m² |
Pig Meat | 17.36 m² |
Potatoes | 0.88 m² |
Poultry Meat | 12.22 m² |
Prawns (farmed) | 2.97 m² |
Rice | 2.80 m² |
Root Vegetables | 0.33 m² |
Soy milk | 0.66 m² |
Tofu | 3.52 m² |
Tomatoes | 0.80 m² |
Wheat & Rye | 3.85 m² |
Wine | 1.78 m² |

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