The Agadir Platform: A Transatlantic Cooperation to Achieve Sustainable Drylands.

RIZZO, A; SIFEDDINE, A; B. FERRAZ, ; ELISABETH HUBER-SANNWALD; D. L. COPPOCK; E. M. ABRAHAM; L. BOUCHAOU

Stewardship of Future Drylands and Climate Change in the Global South Challenges and Opportunities for the Agenda 2030. Series: Springer Climate

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Año: 2020; p. 227 - 251

For the purpose of achieving sustainable development in the context ofa changing climate, the development and implementation of tripartite cooperationtools, into a transatlantic cooperation framework, is the crux of a project to bringabout a transdisciplinary platform focused on research, technology, and innovationin drylands. It finds its roots in the Agadir Declaration of May 2016. The objective of the platform is to set up a ?hub or rear base? at the University of Ibn Zohr inAgadir to develop transdisciplinary research and training mechanisms on climatechange and its impacts on the functioning of ecosystems and their goods and servicesin arid and semiarid regions. Currently, the main challenge to achieve sustainabledevelopment resides in ensuring that decision-making processes aresupported by science. How to translate scientific knowledge on complex long-termissues at the national, cross-regional, and transatlantic scale into better informedpublic policy remains an open question for multi-sectoral partnerships. The mainthread underlying this chapter relates to the establishment of interface modelsbetween science and policy: what challenges will the Agadir Platform assume tobridge various forms of interdisciplinary science and policy expertise to informdecision-makerson long-term wicked problems related to drylands socio-ecologicalsystems?