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Agricultural practices have adapted over millennia to regional and local variations in weather conditions. But as the effects of climate change become more noticeable, further adaptation becomes essential to ensure food security in Europe. The need to improve cultivation techniques is perhaps more apparent in dry areas where the impact of climate change is already visible. As its…

The independent report commissioned by members of the G7, identifies seven compound climate-fragility risks that pose serious threats to the stability of states and societies in the decades ahead. Based on a thorough assessment of existing policies on climate change adaptation, development cooperation and humanitarian aid, and peacebuilding. Climate change is a global threat to security in…

The WWDR 2015 underlines that ‘groundwater supplies are diminishing, with an estimated 20% of the world’s aquifers currently over-exploited. Worldwide, 2.5 billion people depend solely on groundwater resources to satisfy their daily needs for water and hundreds of millions of farmers rely on groundwater to sustain their livelihoods and contribute to the food security of so many others.’ Given the…

As the second in a new series of annually released theme-oriented reports, the 2015 edition of the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) clearly shows how water is critical to sustainable development. Indeed, water is the essential primary natural resource upon which nearly all social and economic activities and ecosystem functions depend. Sustainable development requires that we…

The objective of LDN is to maintain or even improve the amount of ecologically healthy and productive land resources over time, and to do it in line with national sustainable development priorities.Businesses, through their operations, impact land and depend on land according to their business model. Engaging in LDN can in fact be an opportunity for companies to ensure…

Desertif'actions is the Civil society International Forum dedicated to land degradation and combating desertification. The forum brought together over 300 stakeholders from over 100 countries from June 10th to 13th 2015 in Montpellier (France). Civil society organizations, scientists, local government, farmer organizations, private and public institutions… met in Montpellier in order…