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Every square meter of Spain could be farmland and the United States would still have 3.5x as much farmland (that is, Spain's total landarea is less than a third
by sgk284 13y ago
Every square meter of Spain could be farmland and the United States would still have 3.5x as much farmland (that is, Spain's total landarea is less than a third of the United State's cropland).
As it stands, the United States has about an order of magnitude more cropland than Spain[1].
[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=farmland+in+united+states+vs+spain http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=farmland+in+united+stat...
- kalleboo 13y agoYou'd need to look at farmland per capita to interpret the original numbers, not just total farmland.
- sgk284 13y agoNot sure that's fair if the United States is exporting a larger percentage of it's agriculture (as in, that water is indirectly being consumed by other nations). So we'd need to account for who exports / imports from each nation. Regardless, the United States has 1.4x as much cropland per capita, which already accounts for a good portion of the 1.8x increase in water usage per capita.