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Of the total area that is used by humans (Agriculture, Urban and Built-up Land),

  • urban and built-up land is 1m km²,
  • agriculture is 48m km²,

so agriculture is 48 of 49 millions km² used, that's 98%. The remaining 2% are all streets and housing and other infrastructure together.

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[–] West_of_West@piefed.social 40 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Weird to include textile farming with meats. Sure wool is a textile, but so is cotton, flax, wood fibre, jute, hemp etc.

It would have made more sense to divide agriculture into food agriculture and non-food agriculture. And then go into calorie supply.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

i think the reason for that might be that some native communities actually use the same animal for multiple products, i.e. using sheep for their wool but also for their meat.

[–] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Not just native cultures. Very little of any animal goes to waste, from food to clothes to compost. If capitalism is good for anything, it's finding value in every part.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 6 days ago

Well done for mentioning hemp. Hemp's actually a great example confounding the over-simplified division, being great for both food production and non-food production, like sheep too (for wool and meat). Efficient use would not be wasting anything from any production, further confounding the over-simplified division. Capitalist big industry has a bad habit of not doing that kind of efficiency though.

[–] toebert@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

There is a "non-food crops" slice in the agricultural land part which seems to do exactly this though.