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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetNear East Network on Wildlands and Forest Fire five-year road map 2025
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No results found.The Near East Network on Wildlands Forest Fire (NENFIRE) five-year roadmap presents a strategic framework to guide regional collaboration on integrated fire management (IFM) in the Near East and North Africa. As climate change, land degradation, and desertification continue to intensify wildfire risks across the region, this roadmap outlines a phased and inclusive approach to reduce fire risk, enhance resilience, and safeguard ecosystems, livelihoods, and economies.Developed through stakeholder mapping and a regional survey, the roadmap addresses five interconnected pillars: research, risk reduction, readiness, response, and institutional and governance frameworks. It proposes a series of coordinated actions over five years (2025 to 2030), from establishing governance structures and piloting integrated fire management projects to enhancing fire monitoring systems, embedding fire management in policy, engaging communities, and ensuring long-term sustainability.Contributing directly to Regional Priority 3: Greening agriculture, water scarcity and climate action, the roadmap supports country-level and regional efforts to build capacity, strengthen data systems, promote innovation, and foster partnerships with local, national, and international stakeholders. It contributes to FAO’s Better Environment and Better Life objectives by promoting sustainable natural resource management, enhancing resilience to climate-related risks, and supporting community-based fire management. -
ProjectCatalysing Investments and Actions to Enhance Resilience Against Sand and Dust Storms in Agriculture - TCP/INT/3802 2024
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Sand and dust storms (SDS) have become increasingly frequent and severe due to factors such as land use changes and climate variability and change. These storms have substantial transboundary impacts, affecting various aspects of the environment, climate, health, agriculture, livelihoods and the socioeconomic well-being of individuals. These effects are particularly pronounced in arid and semi-arid regions where sand and dust storms (SDS) can pose significant threats to economic development. The agriculture sector is significantly influenced by SDS, as it is both a contributor to and impacted by the phenomenon. In response, during the Fourteenth Session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in 2019, a new imperative for addressing SDS was established. As a key member of the newly formed Coalition on Combating SDS, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has taken the role of chairing the Coalition since July 2020, succeeding the United Nations Environment Progamme (UNEP), to lead global efforts to tackle SDS within the agricultural context. Against this backdrop, this project aimed to enhance the resilience of agriculture-dependent communities to SDS. Furthermore, the project focused on increasing and strengthening knowledge surrounding SDS sources and their implications on agriculture, as well as promoting sustainable land use practices, primarily focusing on countries that are both major contributors to and victims of dust emissions, including Algeria, China, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Mongolia. These countries, located within the SDS "risk belt” (also known as the “dust belt”), face potential threats to sustainable development and food security without immediate action. The project's outcomes contributed to the design of a broader interregional large SDS programme on agriculture with targeted funding sources, supported by the United Nations Coalition on Combating Sand and Dust Storms and potential partners, such as the Green Climate Fund and the Global Environment Facility. -
Book (stand-alone)Sand and dust storms
A guide to mitigation, adaptation, policy and risk management measures in agriculture
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No results found.Sand and dust storms (SDS) are common in drylands with dust often transported over great distances, frequently across international boundaries. Such storms are important for ecosystem functioning, but they also create numerous hazards to society, in agriculture and other socioeconomic sectors.The yields and productivity of crops, trees, pastures and livestock are adversely affected by SDS. With climate change it is expected that droughts and land use changes will increase the frequency and risk of SDS.While agriculture is a major driver of SDS, agriculture is impacted by SDS and it is also part of the solution to combat SDS risks and mitigate their impacts. This guide aims to provide an overview of sand and dust storms and the impacts on agriculture and food systems. It gives a review of how agriculture can create SDS sources and highlights the impacts of SDS on agricultural production in source and deposition areas. It includes a range of high-impact, location- and context-specific practices to reduce SDS source and impacts on agriculture subsectors at local level, comprising technical and non-technical interventions. Moreover, it assesses how SDS risk is addressed at the policy level and discusses options for integrating SDS at national and regional levels into multi-hazard disaster risk reduction (DRR) and disaster risk management (DRM) strategies or sectoral development programmes, followed by conclusions and recommendations.Urgent action must be taken now. Short-term responses need to be linked to long-term development actions to enhance combating SDS. The adverse impacts of SDS are likely to become even more severe in the future, particularly due to climate change, unless appropriate interventions are made.
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