{"id":72234,"date":"2025-11-06T13:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=72234"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:50:48","slug":"state-of-food-and-agriculture-sofa-report-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/state-of-food-and-agriculture-sofa-report-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) Report 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) Report 2025 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) Report 2025 land degradation affects 1.7 billion people, threatening food security and ecosystems.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) Report 2025<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is published by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/food-and-agriculture-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Food and Agriculture Organization<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the United Nations (FAO).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides the most comprehensive analysis about <\/span><b>human-driven land degradation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> impacts crop yields, identifies global vulnerability hotspots, and examines where these losses intersect with poverty, hunger and other forms of malnutrition.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Highlights of State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) Report 2025<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It stated that <\/span><b>agricultural expansion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> remained the <\/span><b>primary driver of global deforestation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, accounting for nearly 90 per cent of forest loss.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has reshaped global land use and <\/span><b>transformed land-use patterns<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across the planet over centuries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest affected populations were <\/span><b>concentrated in eastern and southern Asia regions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> burdened by extensive degradation and high population density.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India had some of the highest yield gaps due to human-induced land degradation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It highlighted that around <\/span><b>3.6 mha of croplands were abandoned annually<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with land degradation likely playing a significant role in these losses.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/agriculture\/india-among-countries-with-highest-yield-loss-due-to-human-induced-land-degradation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DTE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) Report 2025 is published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 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