This report aims at reviewing the concept of social vulnerability and its applicability in the Arab region.

Rainwater harvesting - a simple, time-proven method of Climate Change adaptation - is now being tested and observed by students and teachers of 70 training institutions across the nation.

Around 80 per cent of Mali’s population earns a living from agriculture, generating approximately one third of the country’s gross national product. The most common form of agriculture is rain-fed farming for self-sufficiency.

The complex challenge requires an integrated approach to effective, sustainable investments in land restoration that go beyond current public investments. This report proposes and applies an adapted business model to explore the feasibility of exclosures – areas that are excluded from woodcutting, grazing and agricultural activities – for land restoration.

Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and WFP have collaborated to support post-conflict resilient and sustainable recovery to the disaster affected communities in Darfur, Sudan.

Raised-bed planting is an improved surface irrigation technique is offering farmers a practical and more sustainable alternative to conventional irrigation systems which tend to be highly inefficient and waste already-scarce water resources.

Raised bed planting – making furrows in fields and planting seeds at the top of these furrows – is a proven farming practice that offers the promise of water savings and increased yields. It provides an alternative to some traditional practices which may use soil and water resources inefficiently, leading to land degradation and the depletion of water sources.

The mechanized raised bed technology (MRB) is adapted to dryland conditions and improves water use efficiency, improving farmers' livelihoods, through increased farm productivity with fewer inputs.

ICARDA's innovative ‘Innovative Small-holder Agriculture Resilience’ (iNASHR) project, funded by GIZ and developed alongside Egypt's ARC and Ministry of Agriculture, is helping to address Egypt’s water scarcity and soil quality simultaneously, and through a systemic approach, to improve food security for smallholder family farmers.

This study focuses on the situation in two Sahelian countries: Burkina Faso and Niger, with the main objective of better understanding the present and future impacts of climate change on water resources, particularly in terms of water security.