In 2019,close to 750million–or nearly one in ten people in the world were exposed to severe levels of food insecurity.
The world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030.
If recent trends continue,the number of people affected by hunger would surpass 840 million by 2030.
A preliminary assessment suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic may add up to 132 million people to the total number of undernourished in the world in 2020.

Human use directly affects more than 70% of the global, ice-free land surface, and Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) activities accounted for around 13% of CO2, 44% of methane (CH4), and 81% of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from human activities globally during 2007-2016.

•Decarbonization pathways to Achieve Net-Zero by 2050 are not possible without the “land” sector: both reduction of emissions (CO2, CH4and N2O) andCO2sinks.

Commitments from States and non-State stakeholders already consider the “land” sector (e.g. mentioned in more than 90% of national climate plans such as NDCs, NAPS, etc)

•Numerous options exist and can be applied (short/mid-term impacts), including several “no-regrets” options.
•Land/AFOLU is different from the other sectors: Food Security and Nutrition, multiple ecosystems services, complex in many aspects (source +sink, natural +anthropogenic, etc), adaptation-mitigation cannot be dissociated(context specific), concerning billions of people including the most vulnerable, etc