Webinar: Best-bet Solutions for Salinity Management under Climate Change in sub-Saharan Africa Date

Globally, 1.128 billion hectares of land is degraded by salinity and sodicity to varying degrees, with the Middle East and North Africa having the largest area of salt-affected land, or roughly 34 percent of the total. [...] RESADE project In the spirit of South-South triangular cooperation, the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), with the support of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), is testing and promoting the adoption of salt- tolerant and climate-resilient crops in combination with improved agronomic practices. [...] ICBA and its partners will present and review the key successes and lessons learned from RESADE and other IFAD projects and will showcase best-bet solutions designed to help small-scale farmers in salt-affected areas adopt new approaches that can increase their yields and incomes while building their adaptive capacity to climate change. [...] The webinar will also look at how technical innovations for effective salinity and water management can inform the policy dialogue and culminate in the development of policy options. [...] In addition, the webinar will encourage the use of the policy recommendations emanating from the policy analysis conducted under the project to reflect on the nexus between drought, salinity and water management and the role of public stakeholders.