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The world's farmland, and why our survival depends on it

The world's farmland, and why our survival depends on it

A tenth of the planet's land grows almost everything we eat. It took millennia to form, it is leaving at a football pitch every five seconds, and a third of it is already degraded.

September 9, 20268 min

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