Published on : 04 Nov 2025, 12:37 pm Summary

FAO's 2025 report highlights a global crisis of land degradation affecting 1.7 billion people, threatening food security and ecosystems.

Agricultural expansion drives deforestation, with significant impacts in Asia and Africa.

Reversing degradation could feed millions, but farm size and resource access create disparities in managing land sustainably.

Nearly 1.7 billion people live in regions where agricultural output was shrinking because of land degradation caused by human activity, a new report showed. This is a growing global crisis that quietly erodes agricultural productivity, threatens food security and damages natural ecosystems.

The alarming human toll of land degradation on croplands was highlighted in the State of Food and A

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