Size ratios

So how big is 2000 m² actually?

Try to visualise 40 by 50 metres, for example, or even 20 by 100. That’s 175 parking spaces for cars, two 50-metre swimming pools with eight swimming lanes each, or a third of a soccer pitch, significantly more land than most allotment gardeners would like to cultivate in their free time.

On the other hand, most farming families in Asia and Africa have just 2000 m² at their disposal. More than 80 percent of the world’s farmers cultivate just two hectares (20,000 m²) of land or less and thus only farm around 12 percent of the world’s agricultural land. Nevertheless, they produce over a third of the world’s food. On small farms such as these, most of the yield is used directly as food, while on larger farms, more of the production goes towards animal feed and processing.