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Overview

The African continent has a land area of 30.37 million sq km (11.7 million sq mi)—enough to fit in the U.S., China, India, Japan, Mexico, and many European nations, combined. Especially, Africa's land mass is slightly bigger than the U.S., China, India, the U.K., Japan, Eastern Europe, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, and a few other countries put together. So Africa is not lacking land.

Africa had around 1,162 million hectares of agricultural land in 2021. The continent has 24% of the world’s agricultural land and 17% of the arable. Because of the absence of serious investment in agriculture, nearly two-thirds of Africa’s land is misused, abandoned, and degraded, which downgrades the sustainable contribution of African vast land to economic development and resilience to climate change.

Africa has the largest restoration opportunity of any continent: more than 700 million hectares (1.7 billion acres) of abandoned, misused, or degraded lands that can be restored. The potential benefits of restoring these lands to climate-smart economic use include increased production-processing and marketing of agricultural commodities and stocks, improved food and water security, biodiversity protection, climate change resilience, and accelerated economic growth.

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