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… valuable services, land feeds our families, provides fresh water and powers our future ambitions. Much of the data … the billions of tons of carbon stored underground. • The surface of the earth is approximately 70.9% water and 29.1% … herbicide, nitrate and soluble phosphate contamination of surface waters (by 70%, 85% and 65% respectively). 57 11 11 …

… their livelihoods. As a consequence it undermines food, water and livelihood security, human health, and energy … even though forest occupies only 28% of the world’s land surface. The study found that 78% of degradation by area was … value as well as productive value, providing food and water, fuel and fibre, employment, waste purification, and …