About Agriculture

Over 1 billion employees, one trillion dollars in turnover

Agriculture is the planet's largest industry, employing over one billion people and generating over one trillion dollars' worth of goods annually.

Pasture and cropland occupy 50% of the Earth’s habitable land and provide habitat and food for the majority of the world's plant and animal life.

Soils managed by ranchers and farmers are integral to ecological processes like conserving and filtering water and sequestering carbon.

The vastness of its scale and the practices used by farmers and ranchers inextricably link agriculture to the planet's supplies of fresh water, clean air, healthy soil, and biological diversity.

With its deep connections to the world economy, human societies, and biodiversity, agriculture is one of the most important frontiers for conservation in ecoregions across the Earth.