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GEO-3: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK  
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Land utilization (percentage of total land area): Asia and the Pacific

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Land is intensively cropped in South and Southeast Asia, with large areas of pasture in all other subregions except the South Pacific. In South Asia, more than onethird of all land is cropped

Source: compiled from FAOSTAT 2001

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