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Land tenure in Asia and the Pacific

Agricultural productivity and food security

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Bangkok, Thailand ;

Pages 2 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Synopsis (short abstract) Recent events, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in fuel prices, have placed new strains on our global agri-food system. With world hunger increasing, it is projected that 670 million people will be facing malnourishment in 2030, the same proportion of the world’s population (8 percent) as when the 2030 Agenda was introduced in 2015. It has never been so critical to support our production systems to increase food security. Particularly critical is the role of smallholders. While they are crucial in the fight to achieve food security, they are the ones often held back in accessing technologies and credit to improve productivity, while suffering from uncertainty as to whether they will keep hold of their land.

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