Projektnummer

0065315

Zusammenfassung

The drylands surrounding Europe (North, West and East Africa, Middle East, West Asia) are among the most food insecure and politically unstable areas in the world. These regions are plagued by poverty, and increasingly frequent and extreme weather events have limited agri-cultural development potential. They are facing long-term water shortages leading to increasing dependency on food imports. They have a young population, with little formal education, with high unemployment rates and high levels of political tension based on religious and ethnic divi-sions, leading to violence and eve...