{"id":813,"date":"2010-11-10T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T12:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=813"},"modified":"2010-12-12T01:23:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T00:23:41","slug":"the-world-may-be-smaller-than-you-think-this-is-why-we-need-to-invest-in-securing-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"The world may be smaller than you think. This is why we need to invest in securing land."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There are total 14.8 billion hectares of land on the surface of the Earth<\/li>\n<li>Only about 30% is inhabitable<\/li>\n<li>There are 6.8 billion people on the planet<\/li>\n<li>That gives 0,65 hectare per person to live on<\/li>\n<li>10% of land is arable (of that only a quarter is cultivated today)<\/li>\n<li>That gives about 0.2 hectare per person to grow crops<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To give you an idea of a hectare, (ten thousand square meters) see this picture below.<br \/>\nThis running tack is 400 meters around on the inside. The straight sides are 100 meters long.<br \/>\nThe grass on the inside is about 0.95 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>0.2 hectare is about one large allotment or two small ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 533px; height: 354px;\" src=\"http:\/\/api.ning.com\/files\/1*O9Hi3lxiuNAZoyTr07tku4VVGAhvKEBW9VBpGhgxWhEf*0-GbCjizJC7R7yZcp6dNZYWoF9OluO2nmcTvE5qmttJ0VGctU\/Running_track.png?width=721\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobaleducationproject.org\/earth\/food-and-soil.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theglobaleducationproject.org\/earth\/images\/final-images\/fl-arable-land-and-populati.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we club together, land for a village can cost between say 4000-14000 Euro per hectare.<br \/>\nJust an investment of 400 Euro can secure as much as a tenth of a hectare to be stewarded sustainably for coming generations or as a lifeboat for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openworldcafe.com\/forum\/topics\/open-world-villages-the\">Discuss it here<\/a> and at your local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openworldcafe.com\">Open World Caf\u00e9.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are total 14.8 billion hectares of land on the surface of the Earth Only about 30% is inhabitable There are 6.8 billion people on the planet That gives 0,65 hectare per person to live on 10% of land is arable (of that only a quarter is cultivated today) That gives about 0.2 hectare per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-envelope","category-essential-science","category-why-we-need-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}