Map of world farmland

[AlbertaFarmer5]

https://web.croplands.org/app/map?lat=32.62087&lng=98.34960937500001&zoom=4

Humbling to see how little of the earths surface can/does support agriculture.

A few other things that stand out:

India is virtually all arable
China is nearly all desert
Australia only has a couple of slivers of arable land
Lots of green areas in Africa and South America yet to be converted to farmland.

Mercator projection grossly exaggerates it, but Russia has a huge amount of farmland, never realized how far east it goes.
If you zoom in, there are isolated areas in Alaska and Siberia.[URL="https://web.croplands.org/app/map?lat=32.62087&lng=98.34960937500001&zoom=4"]https://web.croplands.org/app/map?lat=32.62087&lng=98.34960937500001&zoom=4[/URL]

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Just zoomed in on my own area. Not very accurate, I think I found where they got the extra 20% from.

It includes many logging cutblocks, oil leases, lakes in the middle of forest.

Hard to believe there is almost no farmland in a huge swath through southern eastern AB and southern SK?

[URL="https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-11-14/there-s-more-farmland-in-the-world-than-was-previously-thought"]https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-11-14/there-s-more-farmland-in-the-world-than-was-previously-thought[/URL]

[burnt]

This is fascinating.

Some time ago, I read that the Guinea Savannah in Africa has the potential to almost double the world's food supply if it ever was farmed to its potential.

Imagine - 900,000,000 acres coming into production?

It won't be happening overnight - tribalism, uprooting subsistence farmers, no money for infrastructure or development, backward and corrupt government...

However, there are Asian countries that understand the ramifications of not being able to feed their home populations and are beginning to acquire and develop holdings in that zone to meet their national needs. The entire production goes back east.

So they move in to an area and build the entire system for the ground up, if you will pardon the expression.

Guess what happens when the Asians move in: small, local farmers are ruthlessly displaced, local food supply dries up, their tiny lands taken from them when their local "government", or tribal leaders, sells out huge blocks of their territory to the hungry Chinese agribusiness consortium.

More African starvation follows, but Asia will be fed.

No worry, the West will send support cheques to the hungry Africans...

Do you suppose there will ever be such a thing as "yellow, colonial guilt", LOL?

Dang it, why can't something be clean and simple for a change?

[farmaholic]

But but but....they's aint makin any more!

[ajl]

But but but....they's aint makin any more!

Parcel for sale on Kijiji for the last couple of years in this area that is virgin farmland, you get to burn the brush piles. After a half dozen price cuts, the price is still too high if you have to burn piles. It has been disked in between the piles. Making more farmland every day.