Cropland
Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of life—particularly the rearing of livestock and production of crops—to produce food for humans. It is generally synonymous with both farmland or cropland, as well as pasture or rangeland. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and others following its definitions, however, also use agricultural land or agricultural area as a term of art, where it means the collection of: • arable land: here redefined to refer to land producing crops requiring annual replanting or fallowland or pasture used for such crops within any five-year period • permanent cropland: land producing crops which do not require annual replanting • permanent pastures: natural or artificial grasslands and shrublands able to be used for grazing livestock. This sense of "agricultural land" thus includes a great deal of land not devoted to agricultural use.
