Sand and Dust Storms - A guide to mitigation, adaptation, policy and risk management measures in agriculture

Abstract

This report is a product of the FAO Technical Cooperation Programme on “Catalysing Investments and Actions to Enhance Resilience Against Sand and Dust Storms in Agriculture”. This Guide provides a database of more than 150 high-impact, context-specific practices (technical and non-technical) to reduce SDS sources and impacts on the agricultural sector at the local level. This database can be searched using filters to identify the most suitable practices per context according to multiple attributes. The longlist of practices has also been refined to produce a selection of 15 good practices to reduce SDS source and impacts on the agricultural sector. This shortlist of practices considers functionality, scaling, costs and cobenefits. These good practices have been chosen to cover a range of agroecological zones. The top four good practices are described in separate, detailed fact sheets followed by an evaluation of their economic cost, upscaling potential and effectiveness. A more concise assessment of good practices 5–15 is given in table format.