The State of Food and Agriculture 2025 - Addressing Land Degradation Across Landholding Scales

The 2025 edition examines the implications of human-induced land degradation for agricultural production, producers of all scales and vulnerable populations. The report presents new findings on how cropland degradation contributes to the yield gap worldwide against a backdrop of broader degradation processes on other land cover types and even land abandonment. Digital editions of FAO publications are available on the FAO website as part of FAO’s Open Access policy.