{"id":8428,"date":"2019-05-08T11:45:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainableagriculturewaitrose.org\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T11:45:12","slug":"natures-dangerous-decline-ipbes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/2019\/05\/08\/natures-dangerous-decline-ipbes-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature&#8217;s Dangerous Decline IPBES Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Staggering statistics released by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (<a href=\"http:\/\/ipbes.net\">IPBES<\/a>).<\/h4>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\">Key Statistics and Facts from the Report based on Food and Agriculture<\/p>\n<p>IPBES (2019)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>300%: increase in food crop production since 1970<\/li>\n<li>23%: land areas that have seen a reduction in productivity due to land degradation<\/li>\n<li>&gt;75%: global food crop types that rely on animal pollination<\/li>\n<li>US$235 to US$577 billion: annual value of global crop output at risk due to pollinator loss<\/li>\n<li>5.6 gigatons: annual CO2 emissions sequestered in marine and terrestrial ecosystems \u2013 equivalent to 60% of global fossil fuel emission<\/li>\n<li>+\/-11%: world population that is undernourished<\/li>\n<li>100 million: hectares of agricultural expansion in the tropics from 1980 to 2000, mainly cattle ranching in Latin America (+\/-42 million ha), and plantations in Southeast Asia (+\/-7.5 million ha, of which 80% is oil palm), half of it at the expense of intact forests<\/li>\n<li>3%: increase in land transformation to agriculture between 1992 and 2015, mostly at the expense of orests<\/li>\n<li>&gt;33%: world\u2019s land surface (and +\/-75% of freshwater resources) devoted to crop or livestock production<\/li>\n<li>12%: world\u2019s ice-free land used for crop production<\/li>\n<li>25%: world\u2019s ice-free land used for grazing (+\/-70% of drylands)<\/li>\n<li>+\/-25%: greenhouse gas emissions caused by land clearing, crop production and fertilization, with animal-based food contributing 75% to that figure<\/li>\n<li>+\/-30%: global crop production and global food supply provided by small land holdings (&lt;2 ha), using +\/-25% of agricultural land, usually maintaining rich agrobiodiversity<\/li>\n<li>$100 billion: estimated level of financial support in OECD countries (2015) to agriculture that is potentially harmful to the environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit the report<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipbes.net\/news\/Media-Release-Global-Assessment\">https:\/\/www.ipbes.net\/news\/Media-Release-Global-Assessment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Staggering statistics released by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Key Statistics and Facts from the Report based on Food and Agriculture IPBES (2019) 300%: increase in food crop production since 1970 23%: land areas that have seen a reduction in productivity due to land degradation &gt;75%: global food crop types [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","category-ctp-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}