Biodiversity Foundation Project: Irrigation and Climate Change
- Type Project
- Execution 2017 -2018
- Scope Europeo
- Main source of financing Fundación Biodiversidad
- Project website Web proyecto (Fundación Biodiversidad)
The project "Irrigation and Climate Change: Adaptation Measures and Monitoring Using Indicators," developed by the University of Lleida with the support of the Biodiversity Foundation, has worked on impact assessment, vulnerability analysis, and adaptation options for irrigated agriculture in the face of climate change. The project was carried out in the Ebro River basin using various sources of information (current and historical records from the last 20 years) on climatic, agronomic, hydrological, environmental, and socioeconomic variables. It analyzes possible interrelationships and trends linked to real changes in irrigation as an adaptive response to climate change.
The starting point of this initiative was a technical and scientific review of the cause-effect relationships between climate change and irrigated agriculture, as a basis for designing potential adaptation indicators. The project involved an extensive literature review on the effects of climate change on irrigated agriculture. Impacts were assessed, the vulnerability of this sector to climate change was analyzed, and adaptation measures were proposed for this sector. The information available for two Irrigation Communities was used as a pilot project.
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