Sustainable saline agriculture for climate adaptation and mitigation: A call for action

FAO; Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands; Wageningen University Research (WUR); Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU); Asian Development Bank (ADB);

Sustainable saline agriculture for climate adaptation and mitigation: A call for action

Autores

FAO; Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality of the Netherlands; Wageningen University Research (WUR); Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU); Asian Development Bank (ADB);

Editor

FAO ;

Descripción

Saline agriculture is gradually being recognized as a response to the global challenge of salinization aggravated by climate change. The current document is the result of a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, along with the Wageningen University & Research (WUR), the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which led to a session dedicated to sustainable saline agriculture as a response to climate change. It was held at the Water Pavilion of the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) of 2021. Further exchanges between these parties took place, leading to a commitment to advance saline agriculture. This document calls for a dynamic and inclusive international collaboration through partnerships to accelerate the development of sustainable and climate-smart agriculture on saline lands, and proposes the key steps that have to be taken to further the multilateral actions on saline agriculture at several levels.