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AridArid land agricultureAgriculture faces severe challenges due to non-conducive environmental conditions, including low precipitation, high evapotranspiration, water scarcityWater scarcity, high temperatureTemperature, prolonged droughtDrought, soil salinity, land degradation, and increased frequency of extreme weather events. Thus, climate changeClimate change possesses significant impacts on arid land agriculture. Nearly a billion people around the world are going hungry, and achieving food securityFood security amidst unpredictable climate changesClimate change are increasingly challenging. In order to address hungerHunger holistically, the United Nations set up 17 Sustainable Development GoalsSustainable Development Goal (SDG) (SDGs) covering various aspects, including SDG 2 (end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture). The SDG 2 has various targets to be achieved by 2030. The Target 2.3 aims to double the agricultural productivity and income of small-scale food producers by 2030. Additionally, Target 2.4 seeks to progressively enhance land and soil quality by 2030, through implementing sustainable food production systems and resilientResilient agricultural practices. There are few years to reach 2030, under current circumstances when soil and water resources are continuously degraded due to natural (climatic affects) and anthropogenic effects (secondary salinization), the SDG-2 appears to be very ambitious. However, if proper mitigationMitigation and adaptationAdaptation practices are followed and various countries take necessary actions, the SDG2 can be achieved partially by 2030. In this chapter the constraints toArid arid land agricultureAgriculture are addressed and mitigationMitigation (reduction in greenhouse gases) and adaptationAdaptation (soil, crops, water, fertility etc.) efforts suitable for arid land agriculture are amassed to improve arid land agricultureAgriculture for food securityFood security.

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Mitigation and Adaptation in Arid Lands Agriculture to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2–End Hunger

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    2026年

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  • Habibah Al-Menaie,
  • Merlene Ann Babu

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AridArid land agricultureAgriculture faces severe challenges due to non-conducive environmental conditions, including low precipitation, high evapotranspiration, water scarcityWater scarcity, high temperatureTemperature, prolonged droughtDrought, soil salinity, land degradation, and increased frequency of extreme weather events. Thus, climate changeClimate change possesses significant impacts on arid land agriculture. Nearly a billion people around the world are going hungry, and achieving food securityFood security amidst unpredictable climate changesClimate change are increasingly challenging. In order to address hungerHunger holistically, the United Nations set up 17 Sustainable Development GoalsSustainable Development Goal (SDG) (SDGs) covering various aspects, including SDG 2 (end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture). The SDG 2 has various targets to be achieved by 2030. The Target 2.3 aims to double the agricultural productivity and income of small-scale food producers by 2030. Additionally, Target 2.4 seeks to progressively enhance land and soil quality by 2030, through implementing sustainable food production systems and resilientResilient agricultural practices. There are few years to reach 2030, under current circumstances when soil and water resources are continuously degraded due to natural (climatic affects) and anthropogenic effects (secondary salinization), the SDG-2 appears to be very ambitious. However, if proper mitigationMitigation and adaptationAdaptation practices are followed and various countries take necessary actions, the SDG2 can be achieved partially by 2030. In this chapter the constraints toArid arid land agricultureAgriculture are addressed and mitigationMitigation (reduction in greenhouse gases) and adaptationAdaptation (soil, crops, water, fertility etc.) efforts suitable for arid land agriculture are amassed to improve arid land agricultureAgriculture for food securityFood security.