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Statements by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of the International Day of Forests 21 March 2023 and the World Water Day 22...

European forests are vital to achieving Sustainable Development Goals 15 and 6, related to life on land, and clean water and sanitation, respectively. Insights into the current state...

In the majority of EU countries, agricultural land is expected to decrease not only due to land-use changes in favour of urban expansion and afforestation but also to land abandonment processes...

Forests are the lungs of the earth. They play a vital role in maintaining the health and well-being of both humans and the planet. Today, the Commission published two sets of...

The agricultural uses of the Coordination of Information on the Environment Land Cover (CLC) dataset suffer from limitations such as temporal stationarity, low spatial resolution, broad and rather simplified...

Over recent decades two diverging trends in the use of agricultural land are apparent - intensification and specialisation on land with greater production potential and abandonment and degradation...

Developing countries have been affected by the land rush phenomenon for several years. This paper investigates the effect of a land rush on food security during the period 2000–2018...

Hedgerows have important benefits in agricultural landscapes. Along with acting as field boundaries, hedgerows provide animals with shelter, can support flood control, and are widely...

Highlights Dynamic linkages of access to land and food security in the rural and small-town areas of Ethiopia. Contribution of education for food security in the rural and small-town areas of...

Field boundaries are at the core of many agricultural applications and are a key enabler for operational monitoring of agricultural production to support food security. Recent scientific progress...