Eating meat-heavy diets speeds up species extinction, while plant-based diets use less land and help save wildlife.

Intensive food production systems have used too much land, too much water, too much fertilizer and too much soil carbon, he ...

Halting climate change and feeding the world’s rapidly growing population both require major overhauls to the way that humans manage the land they live on, according to a much-anticipated report from ...

International organizations such as FAO, OECD, and EUROSTAT have long sought harmonized methods for land use monitoring. This ...

Behind a steak served in China, there is often a soybean cultivation in Brazil. A new study, published in Nature Food, ...

On Friday, the planning commission heard nearly three and a half hours of public comment when it came to their new land use ...

Originally published by Hannah Ritchie at Our World in Data. Republished here under a Creative Commons license. Humans have been reshaping the planet’s land for millennia by clearing wildlands to grow ...

CHESAPEAKE — A portion of active farmland in southern Chesapeake has been converted from residential to agricultural land. City Council last week approved a request from Ben Hubbard to rezone 22 acres ...

A. has a robust Farmland Preservation program—more than 11 million acres of state farmland is enrolled in its Clean & Green Program, which helps keep property taxes affordable. The program, ...