Optimal Future for the Irrigation Agriculture Under Climate Change in the Fergana Valley,Central Asia

Alexandra Nikanorova and Nikolai Dronin
Additional contact information
Alexandra Nikanorova: Diplomatic Academy of Ministry for foreign affairs, Russia
Nikolai Dronin: Head of laboratory, Soviet environmental policy, Russia

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2017, vol. 3, issue 2, 28-35

Abstract: The changes in irrigational water deficit in the Fergana Valley, Central Asia were evaluated based on different scenarios of climate changes well as land & water management. The Fergana Valley is located within the Syr Darya River basin and shared by three countries: Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The main driver of the Valley economy has been cotton farming, which consumes large amount of water. The current volatile state of irrigational agricultures caused by restricted transboundary water flow in the cotton-growing season from upstream Kyrgyzstan. In the Fergana Valley local farmers can’t afford modern management of their land and water resources which become overexploited and polluted. Apart from the current shortages, climate change may alter projected water demand increases within the Valley. Two climatic and land & water use scenarios were combined in the water deficit models for three time periods: the 2020s, 2050s and 2080s.

Keywords: earth and environment journals; environment journals; open access environment journals; peer reviewed environmental journals; open access; juniper publishers; ournal of Environmental Sciences; juniper publishers journals; juniper publishers reivew (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://juniperpublishers.com/ijesnr/pdf/IJESNR.MS.ID.555607.pdf (application/pdf)
https://juniperpublishers.com/ijesnr/IJESNR.MS.ID.555607.php (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:adp:ijesnr:v:3:y:2017:i:2:p:28-35

DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2017.03.555607

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources is currently edited by Sophia Mathis

More articles in International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources from Juniper Publishers Inc.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Robert Thomas ().