**4. Combating climate change and drought**

Climate change is one of the most important global challenges of our time, with its borderless nature that affects all countries regardless of their level of development. In the report titled "Human Cost of Climate-Related Natural Disasters" published by the UN in October 2015, 90% of a total of 6,457 natural disasters recorded in 20 years are caused by floods, storms, heat waves, droughts, and other extreme climate movements. It is stated that 606 thousand of people have lost their lives and 4.1 billion people have been affected since 1995 due to disasters caused by extreme climate movements. In total, 80% of the poorest group, which receives the least share of income distribution worldwide, lives in rural areas doing small-scale agriculture and animal husbandry. The decrease in precipitation due to climate change and the pressure on natural resources caused by soil degradation can force these vulnerable groups to migrate, which triggers instability and brings security risks [6]).

Aridity/drought and desertification are important environmental challenges of our time and are directly related to climate change. Desertification, drought, and land degradation because of extreme weather conditions triggered by climate change are a global test that threatens the living space and most basic livelihood of most of the world's population and may pose a food security risk, rather than an environmental
