The State of World’s Land and Water Resources for Food Agriculture 2025: Potential to Produce More Better

Addressing urgent challenges like human-induced land degradation, water scarcity and climate change, this work reveals how diminishing natural resources constrain agricultural productivity and environmental health. It explores strategies to unlock untapped land and water for sustainable food production. The 2025 edition of The State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture underscores the urgent challenges of human-induced land degradation, water scarcity, and climate change, and their impact on agricultural productivity and ecosystems; it examines the hidden and untapped potential of land and water resources to enhance sustainable agricultural production by safeguarding these finite resources. Digital editions of FAO publications are available on the FAO website as part of FAO’s Open Access policy.