As part of Environment and Climate Month in Jordan, the French Embassy in Jordan and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) through the AFD’s AdaptAction program co-funded by the European Union, are organizing a roundtable to discuss the challenges of the current and future droughts in Jordan, focusing on their impacts on agriculture. Ten years after the Paris agreement which created high hopes to address climate challenges, the effects of climate change are increasingly visible. Jordan, as other countries in the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin, is enduring severe and prolonged drought conditions in 2025 – rainfall did not exceed 50% of the long-term average – due to multiple converging factors, partially linked to climate change.
