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The purpose of this special issue is to pull together the current state of art of the knowledge and gaps, and to gather opinions from the EJP SOIL participants.

Impact areas:

• Fostering understanding of soil management and its influence on climate mitigation and adaptation, sustainable agricultural production and environment
• Understanding how soil carbon sequestration can contribute to climate change mitigation
• Strengthening scientific capacities and cooperation
• Supporting harmonized European soil information including for international reporting
• Fostering the uptake of climate-smart sustainable soil management
• Develop region and context specific fertilization practices

Submission open date: November 21, 2022
Submission deadline: October 31, 2023
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Most of southern and western Europe is affected by substantial anomalies of soil moisture and river flow due to an exceptionally dry and warm winter.
• The snow water equivalent in the Alps is far below the historical average, and is even lower than that for the 2021-2022 winter. This will lead to severe reduction of snowmelt contribution to river flows in the perialpine region during spring and the early summer 2023.
• Impacts of the emerging drought are already visible in France, Spain, and northern Italy and raise concerns on water supply, agriculture and energy production.
• Seasonal forecasts show a warmer than average spring over Europe, while precipitation forecasts are characterized by higher spatial variability and uncertainty. Close monitoring and proper water use plans are required to deal with a season that currently has a high risk of being critical for water resources.

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It provides an overview of the impacts of extreme weather events that can be associated with climate change and available solutions for the agricultural sector.

It also examines to which extent the actual policy instruments pro-actively support the adaptation of the agricultural sector, both at EU and national levels and provides best practice examples drawn from case studies on how to further contain the adverse effects of climate change for agriculture.

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Egypt’s vision for 2030 recognizes the vulnerability to climate change and identified risk of climate change to natural resources and accordingly to livelihood of the Egyptians. It calls for rational use of the limited water and addressing consequences of the sea level rise on the fertile land of the Northern Delta. The recent Egyptian nationally determined contributions (NDC) promotes water use efficiency, reuse of wastewater, desalinization and rainwater harvesting in addition to changing cultivars to those that are more tolerant to heat, drought and salinity.

Operationalization of the Egypt’s vision requires transforming the agri-food system, to be more efficient, more resilient and more sustainable that allow the sector to adapt to climate change and contribute to the reduction of GHG emissions at the sometime enhance resilience of those at the forefront of the impact of climate change. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps guide actions to transform agrifood systems towards more productive, sustainable and resilient practices.

This report presents number of major agricultural practices applied by small-scale farmers and private sector as well as national wide programmes implemented by the state; that have been examined and analyzed against the CSA’s pillars illustrating role of the public and private sectors, civil society organizations, and women and youth in the adoption CSA practices.

In this context, this publication aims at raising awareness of the relevant stakeholders on the significance of assuming CSA as an approach to address challenges of climate change and support the policy making processes in Egypt to achieve the SDGs. A major objective of this report is scaling up through providing successful models based on scientific investigations for investment in promoting CSA practices contributing to sustainable agrifood systems in Egypt.

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This briefing note published by FAO intends to inform policymakers and other stakeholders about recommended practices tailored to specific crops, and support them to make a transition to more sustainable agricultural production that can deliver benefits for both climate adaptation and mitigation. The note outlines practices that can support a transition to more sustainable and resilient crop production systems, also highlights the contributions these practices can make toward achieving the SDGs.

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It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.

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This paper provides insight and recommendations on the challenges facing “early innovators.” Early innovators are our leaders in conservation agriculture. They have tested and developed climate-smart practices, demonstrated the benefits, and paved the way for others to follow. Unfortunately, early innovators can be excluded from public and private conservation programs, which target incentives toward farmers who are new to the conservation space.

As public and private investments in climate-smart agriculture increase, we risk excluding the very leaders who blazed the trail for the expansion of climate-smart agriculture. Our goal should be to develop an agricultural system that encourages maintenance of existing climate-smart practices, continued innovation, and broader adoption of climate-smart practices by producers who have not yet been persuaded to adopt them.

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