A summary of some of the main global impacts:
Food accounts for over a quarter (26%) of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Half of the world’s habitable (ice-free and desert-free) land is used for agriculture.
70% of global freshwater withdrawals are used for agriculture.
78% of global ocean and freshwater eutrophication (the pollution of waterways with nutrient-rich pollutants) is caused by agriculture.
94% of mammal biomass (excluding humans) is livestock. This means livestock outweigh wild mammals by a factor of 15-to-1.
Of the 28,000 species evaluated to be threatened with extinction on the IUCN Red List, agriculture and aquaculture is listed as a threat for 24,000 of them.
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