WOULD WE NEED MORE LAND IF WE ALL WENT PLANT-BASED?
“Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture, with most of this used to raise livestock for dairy and meat. Livestock are fed from two sources – lands on which the animals graze and land on which feeding crops, such as soy and cereals, are grown. … Research suggests that if everyone shifted to a plant-based diet we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%. This large reduction of agricultural land use would be possible thanks to a reduction in land used for grazing and a smaller need for land to grow crops”
From "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
The data in the article comes from “Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. Poore & Nemecek (2018)
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b0b53649-5e93-4415-bf07-6b0b1227172f/files/m13e577c73b56987e9c3e8eeb47ca6e74?fbclid=IwY2xjawIQUZxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXX3rib94KXUD0ONIGyRkd8T84Gz0-KH8_ZL1mK5MtYnsD9R1-khrqnjLg_aem_W2WFss8ac3H4MSMVungSkg 
