Widespread improvements in the quality of life of many of the world’s populations have gone hand-in-hand with increased demands on natural resources. The planet is struggling to keep up, with increases in the average global temperature and the frequency of extreme weather events transforming ecosystems around the world and threatening entire species of plants and animals.

Water and climate change are inextricably linked. Climate change affects the world’s water in complex ways. From unpredictable rainfall patterns to shrinking ice sheets, rising sea levels, floods and droughts – most impacts of climate change come down to water.

Organic matter management (OMM) refers to various agricultural practices to maintain and increase the organic matter status of soils with the aim of enhancing soil fertility, in particular by ameliorating the provision, storage and release of nutrients as well as by improving the soil structure, which in turn increases the infiltration and retention capacity of the water in the soil.

All the animals and plants in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that exist or happen independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, reproduction, and growth: As a young man he loved hiking and being close to nature.