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Highlights: Tunisia’s economic challenges have been compounded by an increasing vulnerability to climate change. The country’s location makes it one of the most exposed to climate change...

Highlights: Climate change threatens to decrease cucurbit production by 15%. Availability of plants for medicinal and food purposes is severely affected by climate change. Climate change may...

The purpose of this document is to provide agriculture development practitioners and policy makers globally, with guidance, tools and examples of successful integration of gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) into climate...

Key messages The NENA region is dominated by deserts and a harsh environment. The main characteristics are a high level of aridity and water stress, poor soils and limited...

The World Bank Group undertakes SCDs as a diagnostic exercise to identify key challenges and opportunities to accelerate progress towards rebuilding trust and meeting citizen aspirations, and ultimately...

Increasingly frequent droughts, declining soil fertility, and poor plant-animal-atmosphere interactions are threatening the sustainability of integrated crop-livestock systems in the rainfed drylands of North Africa. Previous...

The cereal campaign in North Africa was characterised by negative rainfall supply and distribution in the west, ranging to positive conditions in the east. Morocco was clearly impacted by drought...

WAHARA will take a transdisciplinary approach to develop innovative, locally adapted water harvesting solutions with wider relevance for rainfed Africa. Water harvesting technologies play...

In this study we analyzed the behavior of four poplar genotypes growing in the field under Mediterranean climatic conditions and different watering treatments ranging from optimal to deficient conditions...