Dryland Congress 2026 Adopts Delhi Declaration on Drylands

The correct answer is the Delhi Declaration on Drylands. The three-day Congress ended in New Delhi and its closing plenary endorsed this document, which is written in short as 3D. Participating governments, institutions, partners and delegates backed it. The declaration sets out a shared agenda for changing dryland agriculture across the Global South through collaboration, knowledge exchange, innovation and collective action. Option A is wrong because the release names drylands and not food security in the title of the document, even though food security was discussed at the Congress. Option C is wrong because no charter of that name was adopted; the outcome was a declaration and not a charter. Option D is wrong because the document carries the name of the host city, Delhi, and not the word Bharat. Candidates should link the host city of a summit with the declaration named after it.

The correct answer is 170 nominations from 34 countries. The ISSCA Global Awards are an annual flagship initiative that recognises proven agricultural innovations from institutions across the Global South, chosen for their potential to be scaled up and adapted across countries. Its first edition, presented at the Dryland Congress 2026, drew nominations from Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, West Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The Mega Award, formally the ISSCA Global Award for Transformative Excellence, went to ICARDA of Lebanon, CIMMYT of Mexico and the Odisha Livelihoods Mission of India. Options A, C and D carry figures that do not match the release, and each pairs the wrong count of nominations with the wrong count of countries. In examinations such paired figures are a common trap, so remember both numbers together rather than only one of them.

The correct answer is the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation. The final day of the Congress opened with a commemoration ceremony for this day. Messages were read from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, from the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization and from Ms Dima Al-Khatib, Director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation. The session that followed, convened with CGIAR, was on advancing South-South and triangular cooperation. The theme of the Congress itself was Transforming Dryland Agriculture with South-South Cooperation, so the observance and the theme fit together. Option A is wrong because World Food Day falls in October. Option B is wrong because World Soil Day falls in December. Option D is wrong because the day against desertification falls in June. Only the South-South Cooperation day is named in this release.