In the Indus River Basin, agriculture employs nearly 26 percent of Pakistan’s labour force and produces more than 90 percent of the country’s agriculture outputs. However, extended droughts and floods have affected millions of people in recent years.

The project for Food Security by Enhancing Climate Resilience and Ecosystem Management aims to develop an Integrated Land-Use Planning (ILUP) approach through capacity development of relevant institutions, to establish stakeholder engagement process, and to strengthen the relevant land information infrastructure in a cost-effective way.

Southern St. Elizabeth is a highly agriculturally productive parish in Jamaica. However, the parish is prone to dry spells, prolonged drought, high temperatures during summer months and high winds. Farmers have built resilience to drought by using soil mulch (Guinea grass) and labour-intensive hand watering.

The Syrian crisis that started in 2012 has led to land abandonment and the displacement of large swathes of the rural population, with a resulting deterioration in soil conditions and, more generally, the agricultural sector and national economy. This initiative aims to restore essential capacity for sustainable natural-resource planning and management.

Over the 2010 – 2011 period and beyond, FAO, in partnership with the Government of Jamaica embarked on an initiative entitled Promoting rainwater harvesting and small-scale irrigation in South Saint Elizabeth,

The world’s population is growing rapidly and concentrating in urban centres. This trend is particularly intense in developing countries, where an additional 2.1 billion people are expected to be living in cities by 2030. However, sanitation coverage (collection and treatment) is not keeping pace with urban growth and as a result most wastewater enters water courses untreated.

The OUBAME project started in June 2010 and is supported by FAO’s Trust Fund Program with the Government of Spain. The two-year pilot phase of the project aimed to assess the feasibility of decreasing the negative impacts of desertification on people’s livelihoods, by applying a collaborative and integrated approach to watershed management.

FAO implemented the ‘Climate Change and Adaptation Solutions for the Green Sectors of Selected Zones in the NENA Region’ project. The project used climate change projections, and AquaCrop, FAO’s model for crop yield response to water and climate change, to assess changes in the yield of key crops in selected NENA countries under various climate scenarios

The Project sets out to develop a model for LDN target setting, planning and implementation in the Sakarya basin (Türkiye) for upscaling at national level in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Target 15.3.

The Middle East and North Africa is the world's most water-scarce region and the situation is worsening due to the impacts of conflict, climate change and economic downturn. The water crisis threatens the region’s stability as well as its human development and sustainable growth. Pasquale Steduto is FAO’s Delivery Manager for the Water Scarcity initiative in the Near East and North Africa.