China, home to 20 percent of the world’s population but only 8 percent of the world’s arable land, has gone abroad in search of farmland. In Africa alone, Chinese “friendship farms” grow ...

An FAO map suggests that arable land, suitable for major cash crops such as wheat, coffee, beans, cassava and plantain, will be halved by 2100. default-output-block.skip-main. News & Analysis on Food ...

More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only ...