Data or statistical facts on the situation and perspectives of agri-food systems and the impact of policies
50% of the Earth's land surface is covered by grasslands, which consist of grasses, herbaceous plants and shrubs, and are used as grazing by livestock and wildlife (UNCCD, 2024).
0.65 or less is the aridity index of many drylands where grasslands are located, characterized by water scarcity (UNCCD, 2024).
20 million people in 119 countries have graduated from farmer field schools in the last 30 years (FAO, 2024).
4.3 to 20.2 trillion dollars in annual economic losses are attributed to ecosystem degradation, impacting 3.2 billion people (FAO, 2024).
75% of the global land surface has been degraded or transformed, especially affecting forests, grasslands and wetlands, and is expected to exceed 90% in the next 30 years (FAO, 2024).
70% of poor people depend on wild species for their livelihoods (FAO, 2024).
82% of wood fuel is used in Africa, Asia and South America; the rest in other regions (FAO, 2024).
Between 713 and 757 million people could be facing hunger by 2023, one in eleven people in the world and one in five in Africa (FAO et al., 2024).
29% of the world's population, 2.3 billion people, relied on wood biomass for cooking and heating in 2021 (FAO, 2024).
23% decrease in the global gross mangrove loss rate between 2000-2010 and 2010-2020 (FAO, 2024).
