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Agriculture – Facts and Figures
- Over 70,000 square kilometres of farming land around the world
is abandoned every year because the soil can no longer support crops.
This is due to unsustainable farming practices, like clearing too
much land, growing the wrong types of crops, using too much water,
using too many pesticides and having too many animals on one area
of land.
- You need 20,000 litres of water to grow 1 kilogram of cotton, and
700 litres of water to grow enough wheat to make just one loaf of
bread.
Nicholson, 2000.
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