Abstract
Climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy is one of the seventh goals of the Sustainable Development Goals committed by more than 190 leaders in 2015 year. Adaptation strategy in agriculture involves different options and actions by producers and public agencies seeking to maximize public good aspects of adaptation. Public investment to irrigation system of Azerbaijan is vital for country where only 1/3 of all agricultural lands are irrigated and arable. Besides this the water resources in Azerbaijan are very limited and country annually using the 70% of all renewable natural water recourses. Annual water shortage in Azerbaijan varies between 4.5-5 billion m3. The public financial capital should be invested to irrigation system of country as a part of national adaptation program. Public investments to climate change adaptation strategies should aim at maintaining, or even increasing, food production in key exporting developed and developing regions, or in regions key to regional food security.
Highlights
Agriculture is a fundamental human activity at risk from climate change, it is a major driver of environmental and climate change itself
Climate change vulnerability and adaptation options in agriculture involve different agents and scales and include actions by producers, input and food industries and governmental agencies, with individual acting for private benefit, and public agencies seeking to maximize public good aspects of adaptation
Investment in nature-based water resources management systems include: ✓ Creation of safe delta flood zones as natural habitat for the river to expand into ✓ Metering / monitoring systems to detect and warn against flow, snowpack, or groundwater systems for water management and drought warning ✓ Planting/removing vegetation explicitly to modify water temperatures, evaporation rates, runoff patterns ✓ Use of pumps to transfer waters to / from natural aquifers ✓ Creation artificial water retention ponds
Summary
Agriculture is a fundamental human activity at risk from climate change, it is a major driver of environmental and climate change itself. Method Water provides coherence to climate change adaptation and mitigation, integrating energy, water, food production and agriculture, and ecosystems and the environment Typical investments in this category include water infrastructure for the purposes of water collection, storage, treatment or distribution, or for flood protection or drought resilience. Irrigation system with existing natural water resources and reservoirs embraces whole Kur-Araz lowland (21 631 km2) which is the main agricultural territories of country. Overall length of 15 main irrigation canals which had been built in Kur-Araz lowland is 1001 km with total water stream passing ability 718 m3/sec. This system provides by water 761 thousand hectares of arable lands which is 52% of all irrigated lands.
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