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GEF Morocco agriculture project increases crop yields in face of changing climate
Special Climate Change Fund helps Plan Maroc Vert: supporting adaptation for the most vulnerable
In the region around Settat, a city between Marrakesh and Casablanca, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) financed the purchase of direct seeding machines so that small farmers could seed without laboring the soil. In a region impacted by a warming climate, this improves the soil structure so it can retain more rainfall in the root zone.
Restoring degraded lands, growing resilient communities in Kenya's drylands
Moving from the Paris Agreement to climate action is on everybody’s mind these days and transforming agricultural production to climate smart practices is central to the international community’s efforts of keeping the global climate well below 2 C.
African drylands initiative launched at TICAD summit
A new African initiative to combat desertification and strengthen resilience to climate change in the Sahel and Horn of Africa was launched at TICAD VI in Nairobi last month. On the margins of the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), the GEF joined the the governments of Kenya and Senegal, together with the Japan International Cooperation Agency to announce a new effort to confront the challenges of Africa’s drylands.
Scaling up climate-smart land use for a sustainable future
The goals of last year’s historic Paris Agreement will not be met without greater action to scale-up climate-smart land use. As such, leaders from the public and private sector met today at Climate Action 2016 in Washington DC to share experiences and ideas to help tackle the issue.
US Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack joined other speakers in a session on Catalyzing Climate-Smart Land Use that the GEF organized together with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and We Mean Business.
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