State of Food and Agriculture 2020 Report
About 1.2 billion people globally experienced very high levels of water stress, according to a flagship report ‘ State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2020’ published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on November 26, 2020.
Highlights of the Report
- Some 520 million of the 1.2 billion people lived in rural areas while 660 million lived in small urban centres surrounded by agricultural areas.
- Nearly half of the 1.2 billion people lived in south Asia, while 460 million lived in east and southeast Asia.
- In central Asia, west Asia and north Africa, about one-fifth of the population lived in agricultural areas ....
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