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Abstract
Salinization is one of the main challenges of contemporary agriculture affecting food security and sustainability. Climate change with more persistent droughts, floods and sea-level rise is expected to increase this challenge, making it one of the most common land degradation processes. At the same time, an increasingly complex institutional landscape has emerged across multiple issue areas of global environmental governance related to salinization. This can be seen in a myriad of public, private, and hybrid actors coming together by creating initiatives to address the issue of growing salinization through saline agriculture. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to characterize the development of a governance landscape of cooperative initiatives for saline agriculture in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, and to discuss how to harness their potential and orchestrate their efforts. The preliminary findings suggest that the fragmented landscape of initiatives is predominated by public actors and research institutions. This potentially hampers benefit sharing and upscaling efforts. Operational activities are most frequently the governance function, followed by information and networking efforts thereafter. Thematically, initiatives focus on the development of new crop varieties and water and soil management practices. Linkages to the Sustainable Development Goals suggest saline agriculture is connected to policy debates on sustainable food systems, climate change, water security, and land degradation.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 33 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-4 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Environmental Sciences Proceedings |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 16 Jun 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Event | 2nd International Laayoune Forum on Biosaline Agriculture - Laayoune, Morocco Duration: 14 Jun 2022 → 16 Jun 2022 https://lafoba2.sciforum.net/ |
Bibliographical note
This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2nd International Laayoune Forum on Biosaline AgricultureKeywords
- Salinization
- Governance
- International cooperative initiatives
- Policy
- Saline agriculture
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SALAD: Saline Agriculture for Adaptation
Pattberg, P., Negacz, K., van Tongeren, P. & Smaoui, J.
1/06/21 → 28/02/25
Project: Research