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Has the world passed peak agricultural land?

Agricultural land is the sum of cropland and pasture used for grazing livestock. This is shown for three sources, which use different methods of estimation. While they disagree on how much land is used for agriculture, and the exact date that it peaked, they do all agree that we have passed the peak.

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08 Jun 2026
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Taylor and Rising (2021); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2025); HYDE (2025)

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