This guide seeks to improve the management of forests and trees for the provision of water-related ecosystem services. This can be achieved through an improved understanding of forest-water relationships and of their contribution to water and food security and community resilience, as well as through the inclusion of water considerations in forest and/or land-use p...
This paper takes stock of farms and farmland worldwide, based on agricultural censuses and survey data. According to the data, there are more than 608 million farms in the world, of which more than 90 percent are family farms that together occupy around 70-80 percent of farmland and produce about 80 percent of the world's food in value terms. Some of the data gath...