Archive for October 8th, 2014

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08/10/2014

Seven Key Facts about Family Farms that You Should Know But that You Probably Do Not

Human Wrongs Watch

Rome, 9 October 2014 — Seven key facts about fans and family farms appear, among other, in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2014.

Photo source: FAO

Photo source: FAO

These are:

• There are more than 570 million farms in the world and more than 500 million of these are owned by families. Family farms represent the vast majority of farms in the world, but less of the share of the world’s farmland, which means that they are, on average, smaller than non-family farms.

• Most of the world’s farms are very small. Worldwide more than 475 million farms are less than 2 hectares in size and more than 410 million farms are less than 1 hectare in size.

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08/10/2014

Benefits of Investing in Protection of Biodiversity Outweigh Financial Costs — Report

Human Wrongs Watch

Implementing measures that promote the sustainable use of biodiversity is a worthwhile investment that will bring multiple economic and environmental benefits to countries, according to a United Nations-backed report released on 7 October 2014.

The Green-crowned Brilliant in Costa Rica Photo: UNEP GRID Arendal/Peter Prokosch | Source UN News Centre

The report, released at the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-12) in Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, found that there is a gap across all countries and regions between investments needed to meet the 20 global biodiversity goals known as the Aichi targets, and the resources currently allocated to this endeavor.*

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