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...

Cette publication soutient la restauration des terres dans le contexte du programme de la Grande Muraille Verte. Son propos est d’appuyer, d’une part, les actions sur le terrain, et, d’autre part, la réalisation d’évaluations socioéconomiques, tirant principalement parti de cinq années d'expérience acquise dans le cadre du projet «Action Contre la Désertification»...

This publication supports land restoration processes, as part of the Great Green Wall Programme. It serves a dual purpose of consolidating biophysical operations as well as socio-economic assessments, and is built on five-year interventions and practical experiences gathered through the Action Against Desertification programme. The first part of the publication i...

This review is an update to the first worldwide review of bottom fisheries in the high seas, published in 2009 based on information from 2003 to 2006. It provides States and other interested parties with a summary of the current status of high seas bottom fisheries worldwide. High seas bottom fisheries contribute approximately 0.3 percent to global marine captur...