Chart of 2030 labour requirements (in AWU) by diet scenario and region (IMAGE)

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Chart of 2030 labour requirements (in AWU) by diet scenario and region

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Figure 2: Labour requirements (in AWU) by diet scenario and region in 2030 The diet scenarios include baseline diets as a benchmark, as well as flexitarian, pescatarian, vegetarian, and vegan dietary patterns. (A) Global average. (B) By region—the regions include countries grouped by income according to World Bank classification. Please note that the y-axis scale differs in each graph due to differences in the range and magnitude of agricultural labour requirements in each region. AWU=annual working units. BMK=benchmark. FLX=flexitarian. HIC=high-income countries. LIC=low-income countries. LMC=low-middle-income countries. PSC=pescatarian. UMC=upper-middle-income countries. VEG=vegetarian. VGN=vegan

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© 2025 Yiorgos Vittis, Michael Obersteiner, H Charles J Godfray, Marco Springmann. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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