Our World in Data - Land Use Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems https://ourworldindata.org/ 2026-04-19T03:00:00.000Z Billions of people depend on synthetic fertilizers. Track how they're produced, traded, and used. https://ourworldindata.org/billions-of-people-depend-on-synthetic-fertilizers-track-how-theyre-produced-traded-and-used 2026-04-19T03:00:00.000Z Hannah RitchieEdouard Mathieu
]]> Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric https://ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land-solar-electric-vehicles 2026-01-12T00:00:00.000Z Hannah RitchiePablo Rosado
]]> Hannah Ritchie has a new paper out in the scientific journal “One Earth” about land use, with a focus on croplands https://ourworldindata.org/hannah-ritchie-has-a-new-paper-out-in-the-journal-one-earth-about-land-use-with-a-focus-on-croplands 2025-10-30T09:10:00.000Z Charlie Giattino
]]> Richer countries often use much of their crops for animal feed and biofuels https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/richer-countries-often-use-much-of-their-crops-for-animal-feed-and-biofuels 2024-03-25T07:05:41.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> How does the land use of different electricity sources compare? https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source 2022-06-16T10:00:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’ https://ourworldindata.org/peak-agriculture-land 2022-05-30T10:00:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> Humans destroyed forests for thousands of years — we can become the first generation that achieves a world in which forests expand https://ourworldindata.org/global-forest-transition 2022-04-20T10:30:00.000Z Max Roser
]]> If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets 2021-03-04T12:00:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture 2019-11-11T09:00:00.000Z Hannah RitchieMax Roser
]]> Land Use https://ourworldindata.org/land-use 2019-09-01T13:35:00.000Z Hannah RitchieMax Roser
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