Feeding proteins to livestock: Global land use and food

Competition between direct consumption of plant production and the feeding of livestock is key to global food availability. This is because livestock consume edible commodities that could be available for (food insecure) populations but also because it diverts arable land from food production. The share of total plant production redirected towards feeding livestock is (roughly) known but estimations of land surfaces virtually occupied by livestock production are scarce. In this study, following up on the Agrimonde Terra*