Nowadays, environmental problems are becoming more and more serious and urgent to deal with. We cannot deny the impact of food and agriculture in general, on the environment. If we consider what we eat and how we grow it, we would find extensive damage to the environment (green gas emissions, soil depletion etc.) and also the wildlife (due to pesticides, fertilizers etc.). We are looking to use the data provided by FAOSTAT giving access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture all over the world and try to generate insights and stories on the evolution of different socio-environmental factors such as the correlation between greenhouse gas emissions and agricultural growth for example. Through this work, we hope to gain a deeper insight on the evolution and the environmental impact of agriculture and food.

1. Could we find and support a correlation between greenhouse gas emissions and agricultural growth? Could we also assess the influence of the type of culture on the emissions?
2. Based on this, is it possible to make predictions of greenhouse gas emissions by extrapolating the agricultural growth and land usage?
3. Is it possible to rank some patterns of land usage with social and environmental factors such as employment, life satisfaction (if data are presents), income inequalities (if data are presents), emissions and finally soil quality and sustainability?
4. Is the temporal evolution of agricultural land always correlated with the temporal evolution of the quantity of fertilizers used (and waste emission) or there is some point in time where this trend slows or reverses for some countries?
5. What is the ratio of country support/cost vs crop production in developed countries? Could we find other metrics to explain this support? Should we stop supporting farmers in Switzerland?

• Global Food & Agriculture Statistics (https://www.kaggle.com/unitednations/global-food-agriculture-statistics/)
• Cooking recipes (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~west1/from-cookies-to-cooks/recipePages.zip/)

• Questions 1 and 2: Jérémy Jayet
• Question 3: Mathieu Shiva
• Question 4: Benoît Lacourt
• Question 5: Johannes Brune

Major Issue: question 5 remaned unanswered because our teammate was not able to deliver until the deadline.