World Vitals / Land, carbon, and water footprints
Compare the environmental footprints of food products and production systems.
Food footprint pages should separate production-based estimates, supply-chain boundaries, and per-serving/per-calorie units.
The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.
Database charts
These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.
World Bank
Yield per hectare separates production gains from simply using more land.
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World Bank
Production volume is useful beside yields because total supply depends on both productivity and area.
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World Bank
Fertilizer consumption per hectare helps explain yield pressure and environmental trade-offs.
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Production share gives the fertilizer page a second view beyond farm-level consumption.
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World Bank WDI
This paired view helps separate productivity gains from land expansion.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
World Bank WDI
The paired path shows the structural shift inside global seafood supply.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
Metric snapshots
Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.
Approximate latest UN estimate of people affected by chronic undernourishment.
FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP and WHO / 2024Projected total global CO2 emissions including fossil fuels and land-use change.
Global Carbon Project / 2025 projectionRun-rate estimate from Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 projection.
Global Carbon Project / 2025 projectionRelated topics
Build a food-system explorer across production, supply, hunger, prices, and environmental pressure.
Basic needs and vulnerabilitySee drinking-water access, surface-water use, and hunger indicators from UN and WHO-linked sources.
Livestock scale and welfare indicatorsMap slaughter, production systems, and welfare-linked animal agriculture indicators.