Climate-smart agriculture increases farmers’ resilience to climate change while improving food security and increasing incomes.
The private sector has a significant role to play in curbing climate change.
As the combined problems of urbanization, environmental degradation, and poverty become increasingly urgent, understanding the links between sustainability and poverty reduction is imperative.
A water crisis is threatening several regions of the world. In the Middle East and North Africa, the crisis is serious and getting worse.
Freshwater infestation by the water hyacinth weed has reached crisis proportions in many areas of Africa and the Middle East. Accumulated environmental, economic, and social damages to date are estimated in the billions of dollars.
The use of urban wastewater in agriculture is a centuries-old practice that is receiving renewed attention with the increasing scarcity of fresh water resources in many arid and semi-arid regions of the world.
In water-scarce areas of the Middle East, greywater (household wastewater excluding toilet waste) is commonly used by poor communities to irrigate home gardens.