Climate injustice: the case of Tajikistan
David Valentin Schweiger(CCAFS Coordinating Unit)
"Tajikistan is a typical example of international injustice of climate change," writes Pratima Mathews on the ICARDA blog.
There's hardly a smaller greenhouse gas emitter in Central Asia, yet Tajikistan is the country which is most vulnerable to climate change in the region.
The 'Land of the Tajiks' thereby falls into the category of 'least-responsible-most-affected'. Least responsible, that is, for contributions to anthropogenic climate change, but at the same time most vulnerable to its effects.
With agricultural revenue constantly dropping in Tajikistan, partly due to climate change, the country's farmers are in desparate need for a solution. And this solution, as a new study by scientists from the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) suggests, may exist in a heat-tolerant livestock sector.
The study in question observed changes in farming revenue in relation to the average temperature and precipitation for the main seasons. It found that the temperature impact differed across the country's four provinces, while summer precipitation impacted all of them in a similar way.
Read on and learn more about heat-tolerant livestock and innovative ways of adapting to climate change, in the original story by Pratima Mathews, Balancing climate related changes in Tajikistan’s farmlands on ICARDA's blog.
David Valentin Schweiger is a Communications and Outreach Student Assistant at the CCAFS Coordinating Unit in Copenhagen.
Pratima Mathews, the author of the original post, is Science Writer and Editor for the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).