Climate-smart agriculture key for Jordan in mitigating climate change impacts — WB report

Climate-smart agriculture key for Jordan in mitigating climate change impacts — WB report

The report noted that climate change will pressure Jordan’s water resources and adversely affect agricultural production through water scarcity, higher temperatures, and more frequent extreme events.

“Jordan is facing harsh climatic changes that affect agricultural production, and these challenges are expected to worsen in coming years. Climate change will place significant food security and livelihood stress on Jordan’s poor and vulnerable populations. It may also hamper the further development of Jordan’s agricultural sector, which increasingly depends on export markets,” the report said.

To address climate change, and in collaboration with the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture, and with the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, the World Bank assisted the government of Jordan in preparing this Climate-Smart Agriculture Action Plan.

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) heightens productivity in an “environmentally and socially sustainable way”, strengthens farmers’ adaptation and resilience to climate change, and supports mitigation efforts while offering opportunities to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change, and promote continued growth and job creation, the report said.

“This CSA Action Plan used quantitative and participatory tools to prioritise investment packages for each of Jordan’s agro ecological zones: Expansion of date palms and protected vegetables in