Developing Countries: Land Use
(asked on 14th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate her Department has made of the amount of arable land in developing countries which is unused.
This question was answered on 21st July 2015
The Department for International Development (DFID) does not make assessments of this nature. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) provides global figures, and estimates that 1.8 billion ha of land in developing countries could provide significant scope for further expansion of agriculture in those countries.