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UN Assessment Finds
25 Per Cent of
World’s Land
Degraded
A first-ever global assessment
of the state of the planet’s land
resources by the United Nations
has revealed that a full quarter
of the land on our planet is highly
degraded. The report warns that this
trend must be reversed if the world’s
growing population is to be fed and that
a major “sustainable intensification” of
agricultural productivity on existing farmland will be required as key foodproducing systems are currently at risk of being unable to meet human
needs by the year 2050.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization director-general Jacques Diouf
called the consequences of inaction “unacceptable”, saying that “ ɕ