{"id":81517,"date":"2018-08-10T07:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T14:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/north-american-diets-require-more-land-than-we-have-study-says"},"modified":"2018-08-10T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T14:02:35","slug":"north-american-diets-require-more-land-than-we-have-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/north-american-diets-require-more-land-than-we-have-study-says","title":{"rendered":"North American diets require more land than we have, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-american-diets-require-more-land-than-we-have-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the global population adopted recommended North American dietary guidelines, there wouldn\u2019t be enough land to provide the food required, according to a new study co-authored by University of Guelph researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that global adherence to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines would require one giga-hectare of additional land\u2014roughly the size of Canada\u2014under current farming practice. Their findings were published in <i>PLOS ONE<\/i> today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe data shows that we would require more land than what we have if we adopt these guidelines. It is unsustainable,\u201d said Prof. Madhur Anand, director of the Global Ecological Change and Sustainability lab where the study was undertaken.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-north-american-diets-require.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-north-american-diets-require.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the global population adopted recommended North American dietary guidelines, there wouldn\u2019t be enough land to provide the food required, according to a new study co-authored by University of Guelph researchers. The researchers found that global adherence to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines would require one giga-hectare of additional land\u2014roughly the size of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}