The Human Impacts Database
A collection of useful numbers for quantifying the impacts of the human presence on Earth.Land area requirement for wheat production
LandAgricultureThis quantity is a single measurement of the quantity at a given point in time (2000 – 2010).
| Value: | ≈ 1.7 m2 / yr / Mcal | |
| HuID: | 10715 | |
| Relevant Year(s): | 2000 – 2010 | |
| Summary: | Area of land needed to grow one megacalorie of wheat. See Fig. 2 of source for more information. | |
| Method: | No uncertainty estimate is reported for this quantity and should thus be taken as an approximate value. | |
| Source: | Eshel, G., Shepon, A., Makov, T., Milo, R. Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States. PNAS (2014) | |
| Dataset: |
Resource requirements per Mcal of livestock product and staple crops (eshel2014_fig2_data.csv)
global resolution
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| Original Data License: | PNAS Open Access License | |
| Added By: | gchure |
