How much farmland is used for animals?
Besvaret 26. oktober 2026
Globally, about four fifths of farmland is used for animals, counting both grazing land and cropland for feed. A large review of 570 studies covering about 38,700 farms found that meat, farmed fish, eggs and dairy use about 83 percent of the world's farmland but provide 18 percent of our calories and 37 percent of our protein. Our World in Data, using FAO figures, puts it at 80 percent, with crops for people at 16 percent. Much of that land is grassland, though, and a report from an Oxford research network, citing other work, estimates that only just over a quarter of grassland could grow crops.
In Denmark, most farm and forestry land grows feed for livestock, says the Danish Climate Council. Aarhus University estimates, as an indicative split, that conventional pig and poultry farming covers 22 percent of Denmark's entire area and conventional cattle farming 15 percent.
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- Notat om Danmarks arealer fra Aarhus Universitet, 2021Ét studie · RapportIllustration af arealanvendelse i Danmark, og fordelingen på forskellige typer af landbrug (notat)
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