Improving co-operation between nations’ farming and forestry sectors will help reduce deforestation and improve food security, a UN report has suggested. Between 2000 and 2010, tropical nations saw net forest loss of seven million hectares per year and a net gain in farmland of six million hectares. Collaboration between the sectors would reduce environmental damage and improve social and economic outcomes, it said. The report says policies that recognise eco-services can help protect forests. The…
Farming and forestry can deliver food security, says UN
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