FAO, RSS sign agreement to utilise land in north of Jordan

FAO, RSS sign agreement to utilise land in north of Jordan

AMMAN - The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) signed an operational partnership agreement to implement a project that aims to support achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN) targets in Jordan.

LDN is an approach that takes measures to save land and manage them in a sustainable way to restore the degraded ones, according to a RSS statement.

The project also helps plan sustainable uses of different land and preserve the resources of productive land, increase their areas and improve their productivity to face the growing demand on food in line with the national sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The agreement was signed by the RSS Vice President Rafat Assi and FAO Representative in Jordan Nabil Assaf.

A spokesman of RSS said that the project, funded as a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), through the FAO, will be implemented by the RSS and FAO in consultation with the ministries of planning, agriculture and environment with the aim of supporting national efforts to neutralise degraded land through forest management and rehabilitation and improving the productivity of pastures and barren land in the northern governorates as a first stage.

The project also aims to make agroforestry more productive