The authors developed a model they call HILDA + (Historic Land Dynamics Assessment) to examine the gains and losses in major land use/cover (LUC) categories (i.e., urban, cropland, pasture/rangeland, forest, unmanaged grass/shrubland, sparse/no vegetation) around the globe.
European Air Pollution by Source Sector, 2011- 2021
Specific to the food system, data is available for the following sectors: agriculture/forest/fishing activities, manure management (e.g., dairy cattle, other cattle, sheep, and pigs), animal manure applied to soil, urine and dung deposited by grazing animals, and farm-level agricultural operations.
Distribution of CAFOs and NPDES Permits in the United States
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compiles annual summaries of the total number of “large” concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in each state and the number of CAFOs with a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.
FAO Data for Agricultural Land per Person, 1961 – 2018 (example from Our World in Data)
The FAO provides data on forty-four categories of land use, irrigation, and agricultural practices at national, regional, and global levels. With these data from the FAO, Our World in Data presents the evolution of land use for agriculture per person between 1961 and 2022.