Our industry 2014 - (Page 12)

  12   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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