The 2025 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture report, “Addressing land degradation across landholding scales”, underscores the critical role of land in global agrifood systems. It highlights mounting pressures from land degradation, deforestation, and unsustainable management and presents new evidence on how land degradation increasingly threatens agricultural productivity and food security, with particular attention to how challenges and solutions differ across farm sizes, land conditions and socioeconomic factors. The report calls for strengthened land governance and tailored policies to align private and public incentives as well as local and global actions to address land degradation and restore productivity, safeguarding the future of our agrifood systems.
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