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There are two main uses of agricultural land: arable farming (which is land dedicated to growing crops) and pastureland (which includes meadows and pastures used for livestock rearing). In the chart here we see a global map of land used for arable agriculture (as a share of total land area).
Land use is an umbrella term to describe what happens on a parcel of land. It concerns the benefits derived from using the land, and also the land management actions that humans carry out there. [1] The following categories are used for land use: forest land, cropland (agricultural land), grassland, wetlands, settlements and other lands.
In addition to being a net carbon sink and source of GHG emissions, land plays an important role in climate through albedo effects, evapotranspiration, and aerosol loading through emissions of volatile organic compounds.
18 paź 2021 · From hunting and foraging to burning the land to farming to industrial agriculture, increasingly intensive human use of land has reshaped global patterns of biodiversity, ecosystems, landscapes, and climate.
11 maj 2021 · Quantifying land use change is critical in tackling global challenges related to food, climate and biodiversity.
26 paź 2021 · Land ecosystems are central to the maintenance of fundamental life-support systems for the planet: the air we breathe, temperatures we can endure, water we can drink, soils that support the plants we use, and the creatures we co-exist with.
29 sie 2023 · The way we use land in Europe is one of the reasons why the EU is not on track to achieve its target of halting biodiversity loss. Europe is also not on track to achieve its policy target of ‘no net land take by 2050’. Farmland and semi-natural land continue to be taken by cities and by commercial and industrial sites.
