EIP-AGRI Focus Group Nature-based Solutions for water management under climate change

Coordinator: Sophie Gendre 

Contributors: Gottlieb Basch, Peter Caky, Maria Almagro, Airi Kulmala, Rossano Filippini, Twan Gielen, Adriano Battilani

According to IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), Nature-based Solutions are “actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits”. This minipaper focuses on NbS that could potentially be applied by farmers at the field scale to improve water management, as both were identified by the Focus Group as the most promising cost-effective practices. Although other NbS at the field scale exist, this paper is focused on sustainable farming practices for improving water availability at the farm level. Terracing is not treated in this paper because we considered it as an infrastructure more than a farming practice.