{"id":829976,"date":"2024-05-10T17:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T15:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/2024\/dimensions-of-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:10:22","slug":"dimensions-of-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/en\/blog\/2024\/05\/10\/dimensions-of-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimensions of agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-decorative\" id=\"h-biomasse-und-flaeche\">Biomass and surface area<\/h1>\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Current dimensions of agriculture: To supply the world with the current diet, around 4 billion hectares (40 million km\u00b2) of agricultural land are needed.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the world went vegan, i.e. gave up animal products, around 3 billion hectares (30 million km\u00b2) could be freed up. The available land could be used to grow food of plant origin or be renaturalized. However, this prospect is difficult to realize worldwide. The demand for animal products is high, anchored in many cultures and associated with traditions. A sustainable approach to animal products is therefore all the more important.    <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-decorative has-small-font-size\" id=\"h-flaeche-und-biomasse-der-erde\">Earth&#8217;s surface area and biomass<\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06.png\" alt=\"Area and biomass of the earth\" class=\"wp-image-830031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06.png 2560w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06-960x960.png 960w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06-1920x1920.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06-480x480.png 480w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06-1000x1000.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Biomase-und-flaeche-2-06-720x720.png 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Earth&#8217;s surface area and biomass &#8211; Source: ourworldindata.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The surface area of the earth is 510 million km\u00b2, of which 106 million km\u00b2 is usable land. The agricultural area covers around 48 million km\u00b2. Most of it (38 million km\u00b2) is used directly or indirectly for livestock farming. In comparison, only 8 million km\u00b2 are used for food that is not related to livestock farming. Agriculture that is not used to produce food (e.g. plant-based fuels) takes place on 2 million km\u00b2.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biomass of all mammals and birds amounts to 1091 megatons (Mt). The mass of all people 394 Mt. The number of cattle clearly exceeds the mass of all other mammals. This can be explained by their generally very high weight, but the amount of livestock they keep is enormous. In comparison, there are only 62 Mt of wild mammals and birds, on land and in the sea. The majority of the world&#8217;s mammals and birds are used for livestock farming. (635 Mt)      <\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-decorative\" id=\"h-umdenken-und-optimieren\">Rethinking and optimizing<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the current food supply, it is urgently necessary to get more yield from already cultivated agricultural land. The focus on sustainability in livestock farming is also essential. Optimization is important in order to avoid claiming and destroying even more nature, thus preserving the natural habitat of flora and fauna. Alternative and innovative cultivation concepts can be used, but processing can also be aimed at the highest possible optimization in order to increase the yield from the same harvest quantity.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our magazine, we have other articles that deal with the future of eating meat, food production and the sustainable use of food:<\/p>\n    <div class=\"intro-teaser\">\n\t\t<article class=\"teaser-post teaser-post--layout-filled teaser-post--theme-dark teaser--triggered teaser--slide-out\" id=\"future-food-trend-radar\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/en\/blog\/2022\/02\/10\/future-food-trend-radar\/\" class=\"teaser-post__link\">\n        <div class=\"teaser-post__image-wrapper _animate-in-triggered  _animate-in--slide-far _animate-in--fade color-layer color-layer--overlay color-layer--theme-dark\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/FoodTrendRadar-Marketing-VerticalFarm-1000x571.jpeg\" class=\"teaser-post__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Future Food Trend Radar\" lazy=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"teaser-post__content _animate-in-triggered  _animate-in--slide-far _animate-in--fade\">\n\n            <span class=\"teaser-post__subtitle\">\n\t\t\t\tInsights<\/span>\n\n            <div class=\"teaser-post__title\"><span class=\"_line-effect\">Future Food Trend Radar<\/span><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t                <p class=\"teaser-post__excerpt teaser-post__excerpt--compact\">Our diet today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow &#8211; a thought experiment<\/p>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/article>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"intro-teaser\">\n\t\t<article class=\"teaser-post teaser-post--layout-square teaser-post--theme-dark teaser--triggered teaser--slide-out\" id=\"next-level-greenhouse-of-the-future\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/en\/insights\/trends\/next-level-greenhouse-of-the-future\/\" class=\"teaser-post__link\">\n        <div class=\"teaser-post__image-wrapper _animate-in-triggered  _animate-in--slide-far _animate-in--fade color-layer color-layer--overlay color-layer--theme-dark\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Polydome.jpeg\" class=\"teaser-post__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" lazy=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Polydome.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Polydome-768x360.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Polydome-480x225.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Polydome-200x94.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>\t\t\t        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"teaser-post__content _animate-in-triggered  _animate-in--slide-far _animate-in--fade\">\n\n            <span class=\"teaser-post__subtitle\">\n\t\t\t\tTrend<\/span>\n\n            <div class=\"teaser-post__title\"><span class=\"_line-effect\">Next-Level Greenhouse: Agriculture of the Future<\/span><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/article>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"intro-teaser\">\n\t\t<article class=\"teaser-post teaser-post--layout-square teaser-post--theme-dark teaser--triggered teaser--slide-out\" id=\"water-energy-food-symbiotic-systems-of-transformation\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/en\/insights\/trends\/water-energy-food-symbiotic-systems-of-transformation\/\" class=\"teaser-post__link\">\n        <div class=\"teaser-post__image-wrapper _animate-in-triggered  _animate-in--slide-far _animate-in--fade color-layer color-layer--overlay color-layer--theme-dark\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Agrivoltaic.jpeg\" class=\"teaser-post__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" lazy=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Agrivoltaic.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Agrivoltaic-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Agrivoltaic-480x320.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Agrivoltaic-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Agrivoltaic-1000x667.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Agrivoltaic-500x334.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"teaser-post__content _animate-in-triggered  _animate-in--slide-far _animate-in--fade\">\n\n            <span class=\"teaser-post__subtitle\">\n\t\t\t\tTrend<\/span>\n\n            <div class=\"teaser-post__title\"><span class=\"_line-effect\">Water-Energy-Food: Symbiotic Systems of Transformation<\/span><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"teaser-post teaser-post--layout-filled teaser-post--theme-dark teaser-post--offset-2 teaser-post--flipped teaser--triggered teaser--slide-out\" id=\"meat-the-future\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/en\/blog\/2020\/02\/22\/meat-the-future\/\" class=\"teaser-post__link\">\n        <div class=\"teaser-post__image-wrapper _animate-in-triggered  _animate-in--slide-far _animate-in--fade color-layer color-layer--overlay color-layer--theme-dark\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MILK-Foodlab-Meat_the_Future_01-1000x571.jpg\" class=\"teaser-post__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" lazy=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t        <\/div>\n\n        <div class=\"teaser-post__content _animate-in-triggered  _animate-in--slide-far _animate-in--fade\">\n\n            <span class=\"teaser-post__subtitle\">\n\t\t\t\tFuture Products, Innovation Lab<\/span>\n\n            <div class=\"teaser-post__title\"><span class=\"_line-effect\">The future of meat (eating)<\/span><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t                <p class=\"teaser-post__excerpt teaser-post__excerpt--compact\">FoodLab on tour: We took a look &#038; tasted the meat of the future at the Meat the Future exhibition at A.K.T. in Pforzheim.<\/p>\n\t\t\t        <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/article>\n    <\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/>Thinking differently about agriculture is necessary in the future in order to maintain our living standards and at the same time take care of the planet. Food alternatives such as algae and a rethink on the consumption of animal products are future trends that have a concrete impact on the climate and our coexistence. <br\/><br\/><br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sources:<br\/>https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/global-land-for-agricultur<br\/>https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1711842115<br\/>https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/epdf\/10.1073\/pnas.2204892120<br\/>https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2204892120#supplementary-materials<br\/>https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/land-use-diets<br\/>https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/agricultural-productivity-crucial<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biomass and surface area Current dimensions of agriculture: To supply the world with the current [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":830218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[945],"tags":[925,2194,924,1043],"class_list":["post-829976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","tag-food-design-en","tag-food-for-thought-en","tag-m-i-l-k-en","tag-milk-en-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dimensions of agriculture - MILK.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Current dimensions of agriculture: 4 billion hectares of agricultural land and 635 Mt of biomass in livestock farming\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/en\/blog\/2024\/05\/10\/dimensions-of-agriculture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dimensions of agriculture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Current dimensions of agriculture: 4 billion hectares of agricultural land and 635 Mt of biomass in livestock farming\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/en\/blog\/2024\/05\/10\/dimensions-of-agriculture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MILK.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-10T15:02:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-01T02:10:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.milk-food.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Titelbilder-final_Zeichenflaeche-1-768x768.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"kirk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"kirk\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milk-food.de\\\/en\\\/blog\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/10\\\/dimensions-of-agriculture\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milk-food.de\\\/en\\\/blog\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/10\\\/dimensions-of-agriculture\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"kirk\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milk-food.de\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3be6e3608664aa44ef3088d47d48979a\"},\"headline\":\"Dimensions of agriculture\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-10T15:02:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-01T02:10:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milk-food.de\\\/en\\\/blog\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/10\\\/dimensions-of-agriculture\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":454,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milk-food.de\\\/en\\\/blog\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/10\\\/dimensions-of-agriculture\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.milk-food.de\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/05\\\/Titelbilder-final_Zeichenflaeche-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Food &amp; 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