A World of Demands on Our Farmlands
May 29th, 2014 | By admin![[photo credit: www.community.businessfightspoverty.org]](http://populationgrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/images1-150x100.jpeg)
By Suzanne York, www.howmany.org. Carbon footprint size is often talked about, but what about agriculture’s footprint? Farming of crops and livestock uses more than 38 percent of the planet’s ice-free land. Humans have cleared land that amounts to nearly the size of South America to grow crops and to raise livestock, cleared an area almost
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