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DocumentOther documentFAO Members’ impactful solutions on land, soil and water resource management for resilient agriculture and food security - Call for Submissions 2025
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No results found.To commemorate its 80th anniversary, FAO is launching a call for FAO Members to submit impactful solutions on land, soil and water resource management for resilient agriculture and food security. It provides an opportunity to recognize such successes and solutions, learn from them, and drive innovative solutions for the future. This new technical recognition award aims to highlight best practices and innovative approaches in land, soil, water and integrated solutions. The call for submissions include all details, including the submission process and timing. -
Book (series)General interest bookNature-Based Solutions for Agricultural Water Management and Food Security 2018
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No results found.Accessibility to clean and sufficient water resources for agriculture is key in feeding the steadily increasing world population in a sustainable manner. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) offer a promising contribution to enhance availability and quality of water for productive purposes and human consumption, while simultaneously striving to preserve the integrity and intrinsic value of the ecosystems. Implementing successful NBS for water management, however, is not an easy task since many ecosystems are already severely degraded, and exploited beyond their regenerative capacity. Furthermore, ecosystems are large and complex and the many stakeholders involved might have conflicting interests. Hence, implementation of NBS requires a structured and comprehensive approach that starts with the valuation of the services provided by the ecosystem. The whole set of use and non-use values, in monetary terms, provides a factual basis to guide the implementation of NBS, which ideally is done according to transdisciplinary principles, i.e. complemented with scientific and case-specific knowledge of the eco-system in an adaptive decision-making process that involves the relevant stakeholders. This discussion paper evaluated twenty-one NBS case studies using a non-representative sample, to learn from successful and failed experiences and to identify possible causalities among factors that characterize the implementation of NBS. The case studies give a minor role to valuation of ecosystem services, an area for which the literature is still developing guidance. Less successful water management projects tend to suffer from inadequate factual and scientific basis and uncoordinated or insufficient stakeholder involvement and lack of long term planning. Successful case studies point to satisfactory understanding of the functioning of ecosystems and importance of multi-stakeholder platforms, well-identified funding schemes, realistic monitoring and evaluation systems and endurance of its promoters. -
Book (stand-alone)High-profileNature-based solutions in agriculture: Sustainable management and conservation of land, water and biodiversity 2021
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No results found.In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the area of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) that improve ecosystem functions of environments and landscapes affected by agricultural practices and land degradation, while enhancing livelihoods and other social and cultural functions. This has opened up a portfolio of NbS options that offer a pragmatic way forward for simultaneously addressing conservation, climate and socioeconomic objectives while maintaining healthy and productive agricultural systems. NbS can mimic natural processes and build on land restoration and operational water-land management concepts that aim to simultaneously improve vegetation and water availability and quality, and raise agricultural productivity. NbS can involve conserving or rehabilitating natural ecosystems and/or the enhancement or the creation of natural processes in modified or artificial ecosystems. In agricultural landscapes, NbS can be applied for soil health, soil moisture, carbon mitigation (through soil and forestry), downstream water quality protections, biodiversity benefits as well as agricultural production and supply chains to achieve net-zero environmental impacts while achieving food and water security, and meet climate goals.
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Book (stand-alone)Technical bookTracking progress on food and agriculture-related SDG indicators 2025 2025The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the 2030 Agenda is now more crucial than ever, as the target date draws near and many goals are still far from being achieved. Countries across the globe are grappling with an array of complex and interconnected challenges, including ongoing conflicts, health crises, biodiversity loss, the escalating impacts of climate change, and political and economic tensions. FAO is the custodian agency for 22 SDG indicators spanning Goals 2, 5, 6, 12, 14 and 15. Among its key responsibilities as a custodian agency is to curate the indicator methodologies, collect, harmonize and compile data from countries, as well as disseminate and analyse data at global level. This report provides an analysis of regional and global figures and trends for the 22 SDG indicators under FAO's responsibility, thus fulfilling one of FAO’s key roles as custodian agency. The world is at a moderate distance from achieving roughly half of the food and agriculture-related SDG indicators under FAO custodianship; one-quarter of the indicators are close to being achieved, whereas another quarter remains far or very far from being achieved. Meanwhile, progress since 2015 has deteriorated on over three-fifths of the indicators; one indicator has stagnated; whereas only the remaining one-third of indicators have registered an improvement or slight improvement.
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Book (stand-alone)Technical studyL'agriculture pluviale face aux changements climatiques en Afrique du Nord
Impact et perspective avec l'agroécologie
2022Also available in:
No results found.Cette étude évalue les défis et les opportunités de la conversion agro-écologique des principaux secteurs agricoles gérés par les précipitations au Maghreb. Elle concerne les pays de l’Afrique du Nord, membres de l’Union du Maghreb arabe (AMU) : l’Algérie, la Libye, le Maroc, la Mauritanie et la Tunisie. Cette étude a été réalisée par quatre experts qui ont synthétisé l’agriculture pluviale dans les cinq pays du Maghreb concernés à partir des données statistiques officielles, de la bibliographie et des propres connaissances de ces mêmes experts. L’étude a dégagé des orientations stratégiques et pratiques et propose un processus de transition agroécologique inclusif et holistique pour appuyer les perspectives envisagées. L’agroécologie est l’une des solutions proposées par les organisations internationales et les pouvoirs publics de plusieurs pays pour assurer la transition de l’agriculture vers la durabilité et donc afin de répondre aux défis du changement climatique et de l’érosion de la biodiversité. L'agroécologie répond également aux attentes des consommateurs en matière d’alimentation durable et de recherche produits naturels, de préférence issus de productions locales. L'objectif de l'atteinte de la sécurité alimentaire dans les pays de l’Afrique du Nord se doit de retenir l’adaptabilité de l’approche agroécologique à l’agriculture pluviale pour une meilleure productivité et résilience face au changement climatique (CC). . -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookMapping land cover in Tunisia
In the context of the Soil Land and Water Digital Information System initiative
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No results found.This report presents a comprehensive land cover map of Tunisia, highlighting cultivated land, olive trees, dates and orchards while integrating information on land water management practices. A land cover map was derived using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and stratified with water management data from currently existing data. Statistics illustrating the area of each class regionally and nationally were produced to provide accurate information on land cover classes distribution. Land cover information is essential to understanding the diverse range of ecosystems and agricultural land in Tunisia, particularly when looking to address climactic and socioeconomic challenges in the country. An accurate representation of agricultural land use is imperative when developing strategies for natural resource management and sustainable agricultural practices. Land cover mapping within the SolaWISe initiative facilities access to essential information on soil, land water and crop management, thus informing decision-making processes for enhancing agricultural productivity and sustainability. This land cover map provides a robust foundation for developing insights into natural resource management and agricultural practices across Tunisia. It empowers stakeholders at national, regional and local levels to make informed decisions for sustainable crop production in the context of a changing climate. There is no information on water management practices in the south of Tunisia; producing these datasets would significantly improve our understanding of crop management systems and agricultural water productivity. In the future land cover maps can be expanded to include more intricate irrigation and crop type information, allowing stakeholders to develop a more intricate understanding of spatial variation in crop suitability and productivity.