Launch of The State of Food and Agriculture 2025 – Addressing land degradation across landholding scales
Rome (Italy), 03/11/2025
The 2025 edition of The State of Food and Agriculture report, “Addressing land degradation across landholding scales”, underscores the critical role of land in global agrifood systems. It highlights mounting pressures from land degradation, deforestation, and unsustainable management and presents new evidence on how land degradation increasingly threatens agricultural productivity and food security, with particular attention to how challenges and solutions differ across farm sizes, land conditions and socioeconomic factors. The report calls for strengthened land governance and tailored policies to align private and public incentives as well as local and global actions to address land degradation and restore productivity, safeguarding the future of our agrifood systems.
Opened by the FAO Director-General, the high-level panelists will share their experiences in the discussion “What incentives and barriers affect landholder action on land degradation, and how can policy better respond across scales?”. The panel will involve a rich discussion with perspectives from different countries, from various regions.
Agenda
Moderator: Ms Thin Lei Win, Journalist | |
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12:30 | Moderator welcome, Ms Thin Lei Win and SOFA Curtain raiser film Opening remarks by Mr QU Dongyu, Director-General, FAO |
12:45 | SOFA 2025 in a nutshell Presentation by the Agrifood Economics and Policy Division, FAO |
13:00 | Panel – Speakers (tbc) What incentives and barriers affect landholder action on land degradation, and how can policy better respond across scales? Participants:
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13:40 | Moderator opens the floor for Q&A |
13:55 | Takeaways for moving forward by Mr Máximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, FAO |