Iran’s agriculture in the anthropocene
Maghrebi, Mohsen; Noori, Roohollah; Bhattarai, Rabin; Mundher Yaseen, Zaher; Tang, Qiuhong; Al‐Ansari, Nadhir; Danandeh Mehr, Ali; Karbassi, Abdolreza; Omidvar, Javad; Farnoush, Hossein; Torabi Haghighi, Ali; Kløve, Bjørn; Madani, Kaveh (2020-09-01)
Maghrebi, M., Noori, R., Bhattarai, R., Mundher Yaseen, Z., Tang, Q., Al‐Ansari, N., et al. (2020). Iran’s agriculture in the Anthropocene. Earth’s Future, 8, e2020EF001547. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001547
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe202101071261
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Abstract
The anthropogenic impacts of development and frequent droughts have limited Iran’s water availability. This has major implications for Iran’s agricultural sector which is responsible for about 90% of water consumption at the national scale. This study investigates if declining water availability impacted agriculture in Iran. Using the Mann‐Kendall and Sen’s slope estimator methods, we explored the changes in Iran’s agricultural production and area during the 1981–2013 period. Despite decreasing water availability during this period, irrigated agricultural production and area continuously increased. This unsustainable agricultural development, which would have been impossible without the overabstraction of surface and ground water resources, has major long‐term water, food, environmental, and human security implications for Iran.
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