Reversing desertification to enhance food security.

From
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Published on
16.06.20
Impact Area
Climate adaptation & mitigation, Food security
Funders
The World Bank

This year’s Desertification and Drought Day theme is Food. Feed. Fiber. focusing on links between consumption and land resources. Desertification is caused by the over-use of the land’s resources by humans, usually for agriculture, as well as climatic variations. Yet, as populations grow, consumption inevitably increases so in the highly climate-vulnerable non-tropical drylands where ICARDA has operated for over four decades, we introduce approaches to create agricultural environments that are more resilient to communities’ increasing needs.

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