farming

The United States has the most agricultural land at about 421 million hectares, ahead of China and Australia. But India has the most cropland, Kazakhstan has the most arable land per person, and most of the world's farmland is pasture. Here is who has what, and what threatens it.

India and the United States each farm roughly 150 million hectares of arable land, with Russia and China next. Yield, water, and soil decide what that land actually feeds. Here is the ranking and what it leaves out.

China leads almost every broad measure of food output, but the ranking changes with the metric. Here is who leads by value added, by staple crop tonnage, and by meat and milk, with sources and caveats.