A meeting on sustainable oases, organized on Saturday on the sidelines of COP 28 in Dubai at the initiative of Morocco’s National Agency for the Development of Oasis Zones and Argan Trees (ANDZOA), called for creating an international alliance to support sustainable oases and cope with climate change.
Held in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), this meeting, focused on the governance of the “sustainable oases initiative”, was an opportunity to highlight the role of this alliance to strengthen and encourage multidisciplinary research and exchange knowledge on oases.
The meeting, attended by the Agency for Agricultural Development (ADA) under the Ministry of Agriculture, the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection, the International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA), as well as representatives of non-governmental organizations, also underlined the role of this alliance in terms of financial mobilization intended for research and sustainable development of oases.
The participants underlined the importance of the recommendations of the scientific workshop on the “sustainable oases initiative”, held on September 19-20, 2023, in Rabat, expressing their support for this initiative in its three action areas: recognition, preservation and development.
The meeting also highlighted the efforts undertaken to promote the “sustainable oases initiative”, launched during COP22 in Marrakech.
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