Share of land defined as natural habitat
Natural ecosystems include forest, grassland, savanna, and shrublands, and other classes such as peatlands and marshes. It is total land minus land that isused by humans for agriculture – either croplands or pasture – or for infrastructure and urban environments.
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- Agricultural land use
- Arable land needed to produce a fixed quantity of crops
- Area of land needed to meet global vegetable oil demand
- Change in cereal production, yield, land use and population
- Extent of extensive agriculture
- Extent of foraging, hunting and gathering
- Extent of intensive agriculture
- Extent of pastoralism
- Global cropland is still increasing
- Global land use since 10,000 BCE
- 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: the change over the prior decade
- 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
- Share of rural land area where the elevation is 5 meters or less
- Share of world regions with land use present
- Terrain Ruggedness Index