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… THE LAND IN NUMBERS LIVELIHOODS AT A TIPPING POINT FOREWORD … the numbers highlight how much we rely on productive land. Amongst other valuable services, land feeds our families, provides fresh water and powers our … The Land in Numbers …

… to protection measures, and RECOGNIZING the role of the land-use matrix in the preservation of biodiversity and its … environmental services; WISHING to propose and promote new land-use visions and new processes of creating land- use projects in those periurban spaces for the purpose …

… a lack of access to production inputs, support services, land, facilities and decision-making processes over the … manage carefully the expansion of industrial agricultural land in such a way as to avoid compromising the integrity of …

… many countries – making up about 35 percent of the global land area – will experience novel climates they have not been … where maize is a major staple food crop at present, the land may not be suitable anymore for its cultivation by 2050. …

… production constitutes 85 per cent of the agricultural land used, with several different varieties grown. The local … rice) a year because she has been able to access more land. She leases land from the local school, and due to the soil quality of …

… 300 meters. The weather is diverse due to differences in land elevation. Location of Huehuetenango, Guatemala In the …

… over the long run. As oil, clean water and arable land become scarcer, their cost as agricultural inputs … plant breeding. be expected from an expansion in arable land.12 Crop genetic resources contain the essential building … latitudes will be most se- verely affected by a decline in land suitable for cultivation, especially sub-Saharan Africa …

… the protection of plants (both cultivated and wild, on land or in aquatic environments), the ap- plication of … for sustainable agriculture, it is necessary to use more land and implement more efficient production sys- tems, new …