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Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of the World Migratory Bird Day 13 May 2023

Highlight Food systems interact with, and affect, the environment in a great many ways beyond their greenhouse gas emissions. In order to feed humans, the global food...

Key messages The NENA region is dominated by deserts and a harsh environment. The main characteristics are a high level of aridity and water stress, poor soils and limited...

Reducing food production pressures on the environment while feeding an ever-growing human population is one of the grand challenges facing humanity. The magnitude of environmental impacts from food production...

The Economic Case for Nature is part of a series of papers by the World Bank that lays out the economic rationale for investing in nature and recognizes how economies rely on nature for services...

Data on area devoted to different land cover categories (e.g. artificial land, cropland, woodland, grassland, etc.), expressed in percentage and square kilometre. Some categories...

Data on area devoted to different land use categories (e.g. agriculture, forestry, fishing, energy production, etc.), expressed in percentage and square kilometre. Data broken...

Hand-in-Hand is an initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to accelerate agricultural transformation and sustainable rural development to eradicate poverty (SDG1) and end hunger and all...