Help increase agricultural resilience to climate change
Civil society organisations need to disseminate methods to optimize water productivity in arid areas to help increase agricultural resilience to climate change
Need characteristics
Societal challenges
- Food Security
Themes
Increase agriculture productivity and resilience to climate change, while mitigating its impacts
Sub themes
How to optimize water use for agriculture in arid areas?
Stakeholder group
- Civil Society Organisations (CSOs)
Task/Job
- Agriculture in arid areas
- Dry season farming
Pain
- Droughts affecting agriculture and livestock
Gain
- Improved irrigation methods for arid areas that integrate local methods and ecosystem based approaches
Simplified climate and water scenarios
- Dryer
- Wetter & Dryer
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