this question is submitted by julie maxwell of the epa. how can policies and program support local environmental knowledge in adaptive capacities to respond to droughts? we need more policy in place. >> we need more policy. some of the policies are undermining the capacity so sometimes we need policy. let me give you an example of some of the committee's committees working in the saharan in southwest or east south of moradi. in the last two decades and a half from the late 80s some committees have been improving and restoring the land. this movement which is a grassroots level movement has been coined as -- and it ended up restoring up to 5 million acres of land. as a matter fact, i think it was two years ago when those communities have been sufficient food security. so the difference is -- is contributing to those types of success stories. beyond that policy contributes to the knowledge sharing. one of the schemes of knowledge sharing is working in that region and those regions is farmer to farmer knowledge sharing, because farmers do tru