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      Climate Change Effects on Agriculture and Food Security in Tajikistan

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          Climate change is one of the main challenges for Tajikistan’s agricultural development and food security both in the medium and longer term. It is considered one of the key obstacles to achieving the country’s strategic objectives as defined in the National Development Strategy for 2016–2030, which includes ensuring food security and access to quality nutrition by 2030. Using IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), this article examines the effects of climate change on agriculture and food security in Tajikistan. The model simulation results show that yields of some major crops will decline significantly and project an overall negative effect of climate change on the agriculture sector in the country. Climate change will be one of the main challenges for food security, leading to an increased number of people at risk of hunger, malnourishment, especially among children and other vulnerable groups, and insufficient per capita calorie intake. Lower food availability may lead to higher food prices, which would negatively affect the livelihood of the population.

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                Author and article information

                Contributors
                Role: Freelance research collaborator
                Role: Research Collaborator
                Role: Research Fellow
                Role: Senior Research Analyst
                Role: Senior Research Analyst
                Journal
                2631-682X
                Silk Road: A Journal of Eurasian Development
                University of Westminster Press
                2631-682X
                04 December 2020
                2020
                : 2
                : 1
                : 89-112
                Affiliations
                [1 ]IFPRI research collaborator, Dushanbe, TJ
                [2 ]International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC, US
                Article
                10.16997/srjed.33
                8bad828e-8a79-4310-905e-44e8d2b1e727
                Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s)

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

                History
                : 23 June 2020
                : 05 October 2020
                Categories
                Policy paper

                Social policy & Welfare,Education & Public policy,Agricultural economics & Resource management,Energy economics,General social science,Development studies
                population,Tajikistan,equilibrium model,food security,climate change,agriculture

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