This report is a Quick guide to the report The Value of Land - Prosperous lands and positive rewards through sustainable land management.
This report provides evidence of how increasingly scarce resources can be conserved and also presents tools for policy-/decision-makers to promote and secure future wealth and human well-being through sustainable land management.
With around one-third of the world’s arable land degraded, estimated annual losses of 6.3 to 10.6 USD trillion, and a projected need to increase food production from land by 70 percent by 2050, we simply cannot afford to neglect the loss of potential production from careless land management.
Land degradation and desertification are among of the world’s greatest environmental challenges. It is estimated that desertification affects about 33 % of the global land surface, and that over the past 40 years erosion has removed nearly one-third of the world’s arable land from production.