Land Footprint

LAND FOOTPRINT WHAT IS THE LAND FOOTPRINT? The land footprint of a country is the amount of land that is required along the production chain to produce the goods and services consumed within the country. 00000 WITH EVERY PRODUCT WE CONSUME, WE CONSUME LAND Land footprint of some everyday products: 1 litre milk': 1,5 m2 1 kg pulses': 5,5 m? 1 bicycle': 3,4 m? 1 kg beef': 1 car?: 22 m? 150 m2 3 EUROPE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CONSUMERS OF AGRICULTURAL LAND³ Agricultural land footprints per capita, 2007 Japan 0,4 ha Canada UK, Denmark, Netherlands 0,7 ha 0,9 ha Belgium, Ireland 0,9 ha Austria, Germany Bulgaria China 0,2 ha 0,5 ha France 0,6 ha Czech Republic, Hungary India 0,4 ha 0,2 ha Spain 0,8 ha Australia 3,2 ha USA 1 ha EUROPE IS HEAVILY DEPENDENT ON IMPORTED LAND3 with roughly 40% of land consumed coming from outside Europe, mainly from China, Brazil, Argentina and USA. USA Brazil China Argentina THE INCREASING WORLDWIDE HUNGER FOR LAND HAS SEVERE ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL IMPACTS which occur predominantly in the global south. This increase in land demand is driving ... climate change social inequalities higher food prices IMPACTS biodiversity loss land grabs“ 6. HOW TO LIVE WELL & CONSUME LESS LAND ... use your products for longer, reuse them and then recycle GET ACTIVE! NO! reduce the consumption of land intensive products ... push your government to reduce the national land footprint such as meat 1 Nijdam, D.S., Rood, T., Westhoek, H., 2012. The price of protein: Review of land use and carbon.footprints from life cycle assessments of animal food products and their substitutes. Food Policy 37, 760-770. 2 Swiss Center for LCI, 2009. Ecolnvent 2.1. Swiss Center for Life Cycle Inventories, Zurich, Switzerland. 3 The numbers refer to agricultural land footprints, which include land for crop production and livestock farming, being the largest users of land worldwide. Fore- stry and industrial land are not included. SERI, GLOBAL 2000, Friends of the Earth Europe, 2013. Hidden Impacts. How Europe's resource overconsumption promotes global land conflicts, Vienna/Brussels. 4 It is calculated that from 2000 to 2010, 203 million hectares hectares of land were grabbed. This land area is equivalent to over eight times the size of the United Kingdom. It is believed that 40% of this is for biofuels crops. For more information: www.reduse.org. SERI GLOBAL 20 REd USE Friends of the Earth Europe The project REdUSE is funded by the European Union. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of GLOBAL 2000, Friends of the Earth Europe and SERI and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.