How much of the world's cropland is actually used to grow food?

Posted on AllSides August 21st, 2014
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Just 55 percent of the world's crop calories are actually eaten directly by people. Another 36 percent is used for animal feed. And the remaining 9 percent goes toward biofuels and other industrial uses. (Those figures come from this paper by Emily Cassidy and other researchers at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment.)

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http://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053187/cropland-map-food-fuel-animal-feed

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