Water, Land Management and Ecosystems also targets improved land management and drought mitigation through sustainable agriculture and the utilization of natural resources; developing ‘best-bet’ technologies; and adopting and out-scaling modern research tools.
Selected impacts:
Soilless production: scalable technology packages for hydroponic systems in the Arabian Peninsula enable smallholder farmers in water-scarce regions to reap high-yield, high-quality cash crops even under harsh growing conditions.
Raised-bed planting: an innovative adaptation of seed drills in Egypt has enhanced the adoption of raised-bed planting, a practical and cost-effective technique that has many conservation benefits and requires significantly less water.
Harvesting rainwater to ‘green’ rangelands: An auto-guiding system using inexpensive lasers is enhancing the use of Vallerani plows to construct rainwater micro-catchments more efficiently and effectively.