{"id":87246,"date":"2020-05-16T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T08:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=15486"},"modified":"2020-05-16T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T08:06:42","slug":"global-forest-resources-assessment-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-forest-resources-assessment-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020(FRA 2020) has been released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The report presents a comprehensive view of the world\u2019s forests and the ways in which the resource is changing.<\/li><li>It is based on the assessment of more than 60 forest-related variables in 236 countries and territories in the period of 1990\u20132020.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Total forest area:<\/strong> The world\u2019s total forest area is 4.06 billion hectares (bha) which is 31% of the total land area.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Countries with Highest forest cover: <\/strong>Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, United States of America and China constituted more than 54% of the world\u2019s forests.<\/li><li><strong>Decline in rate of forest loss:<\/strong>The rate of net forest loss decreased substantially during the period of 1990\u20132020.<\/li><li><strong>Forest Area:<\/strong>During the last decade Forest area has increased in Asia, Oceania and Europe while the highest rate of net forest losses were recorded in Africa followed by South America.<\/li><li><strong>Types of forest loss:<\/strong> The largest proportion of the world\u2019s forests are tropical (45%), followed by boreal, temperate and subtropical.<\/li><li><strong>Plantation Forests: <\/strong>The highest percent of plantation forests were in South America while the lowest were in Europe.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FAO:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It<strong> <\/strong>is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.It is headquartered in Rome,Italy.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>To achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.<\/li><li><strong>Reports:<\/strong><ul><li>Global Food Price Index&nbsp;<\/li><li>State of the World\u2019s Forests report among others.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020(FRA 2020) has been released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO). Facts: The report presents a comprehensive view of the world\u2019s forests and the ways in which the resource is changing. It is based on the assessment of more than 60 forest-related variables in 236 countries and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-forest-resources-assessment-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4992],"class_list":["post-87246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-global-forest-assessment-report","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700401833},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}