Escalating Appetite
62-63: Escalating Appetite
Main graph, Global Grain Production 1950–2012, Compiled by Earth Policy Institute from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C54
64-65: Farmed Planet
Main land use graphic is based on data from the Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. Accessed at http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/i1688e/i1688e.pdf
“Change over time” farmed land since 1800 map based on ‘The importance of three centuries of land-use change for the global and regional terrestrial carbon cycle’, Climate Change, 97, 2 July 2009, pp123–144. Accessed at http://www.researchgate.net/publication/226196284_The_importance_of_three_centuries_of_land-use_change_for_the_global_and_regional_terrestrial_carbon_cycle
66-67: Fertilizer Boom
Main graphic using data from Max Roser (2015) ‘Fertilizer and Pesticides’. Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Accessed at
68-69: Pest Control Challenge
Main crop graphic outlining the extent of pesticide use in various countries from Max Roser (2016) ‘Fertilizer and Pesticides’. Published online at ourworldindata.org. Accessed at https://ourworldindata.org/fertilizer-and-pesticides/
Graph of bird population decline from ‘Popular Pesticides Linked to Drops in Bird Populations’, by Helen Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine, July 2014. Accessed at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/popular-pesticides-linked-drops-bird-population-180951971/?no-ist
“Global rise in pesticide sales” uses data from ‘Estimated worldwide annual sales of pesticides (herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and others) in billions of dollars, 1960-1999’, George N. Agrios (2005), Plant Pathology, Fifth Edition. Academic Press.
‘We’ve covered the world in pesticides. Is that a problem?’, Brad Plumer, The Washington Post, 2013. Accessed at
70-71: How Food is Wasted
Information on the scale and breakdown of food waste from ‘Save Food: Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction’, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed at http://www.fao.org/save-food/en/
72-23: Feeding the World
Main plate graphics use number from ‘The State of Food Insecurity in the World’, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2015. Accessed at
Food costs panel comparing the USA and India uses data from ‘America Spends Less on Food Than Any Other Country’, Alyssa Battistoni, Mother Jones, February 2012. Accessed at
74-45: Threats to Food Security
The main map graphic uses information from ‘Restoring the land, Dimensions of need – An atlas of food and agriculture’, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, 1995. Accessed at
The drought panel uses data from the Natural Resources and Environment, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, 2015. Accessed at