Our industry 2014 - (Page 12)
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01 Global challenges
Environmental stress
As demand for increased quantity and quality of crops grows, agriculture
must evolve in order to meet these demands in a sustainable way. Changes
in climate will further stress the availability of water, land, and biodiversity
necessary for productive agriculture.
Limited land for agriculture
Within the 13 billion hectares of total land, only 1.6 billion is under farmland
production; 36% of that land is in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 39% in
Asia Pacific, 15% in North America and the remaining 10% in Latin America.
Global land use and agricultural land
billion hectares
4.9
13.0
3.3
Potential area
for agricultural
expansion
4.0
3.0
Total planted
area ~1.6 billion ha
4.1
0.3
0.14
1.2
4.9
0.3
Land
Forest
Other
Agricultural
Agri- Permanent Permanent Major
cultural meadows
crops
crops
Sources: FAO; World Bank; WWF; Syngenta analysis
2011 crop areas
Eastern Europe
Africa
Western Europe, Middle East
China
India
Rest of Asia Pacific
United States of America
Rest of North America
Brazil
Rest of LATAM
Sources: FAO; Syngenta estimates
13%
17%
6%
8%
11%
20%
10%
5%
5%
5%
~1.6 billion
hectares
Undefined
2011 crop area:
approximately 1.6 billion
hectares globally;
12% of land surface
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