Hectares
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To meet global demand for 7.2 million metric tons of chocolate annually, multinationals like Hershey rely on millions of cocoa farmers, each of whom farms a tiny plot, often 1-2
hectares
(2.5-5 acres).
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And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion
hectares
of grasslands, and almost nobody is talking about it.
We are already doing so on about 15 million
hectares
on five continents, and people who understand far more about carbon than I do calculate that, for illustrative purposes, if we do what I am showing you here, we can take enough carbon out of the atmosphere and safely store it in the grassland soils for thousands of years, and if we just do that on about half the world's grasslands that I've shown you, we can take us back to pre-industrial levels, while feeding people.
There's another one which suggests that 30 million
hectares
of land in Europe, an area the size of Poland, will be vacated by farmers between 2000 and 2030.
Now together, through our supply chain, with partners, we've managed to certify 35 million
hectares
of forestry.
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