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France joins Mediterranean neighbours to seek new technologies to fight drought

Sunflowers fields pictured completely dried up near Strasbourg, eastern France, on 28 August 2022. Europe is experiencing major droughts that have fuelled forest fires, dried up rivers and devastated crops. © AP - Jean-Francois Badias

Officials from nine southern European Union countries pledged this week to work together to develop more water-saving technologies in agriculture. Farmers are feeling the strain of worsening droughts, which in turn threaten food security.

The promises came during a gathering in Cyprus of the so-called Med9 countries – France, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain – to address growing water scarcity as a result of climate change.

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