Iran's Agriculture in the Anthropocene
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 wat...
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| author | Mohsen Maghrebi Roohollah Noori Rabin Bhattarai Zaher Mundher Yaseen Qiuhong Tang Nadhir Al‐Ansari Ali Danandeh Mehr Abdolreza Karbassi Javad Omidvar Hossein Farnoush Ali Torabi Haghighi Bjørn Kløve Kaveh Madani |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-79ba7c3eedcb4ef5a7ca28a17285a0642022-12-22T03:41:53ZengWileyEarth's Future2328-42772020-09-0189n/an/a10.1029/2020EF001547Iran's Agriculture in the AnthropoceneMohsen Maghrebi0Roohollah Noori1Rabin Bhattarai2Zaher Mundher Yaseen3Qiuhong Tang4Nadhir Al‐Ansari5Ali Danandeh Mehr6Abdolreza Karbassi7Javad Omidvar8Hossein Farnoush9Ali Torabi Haghighi10Bjørn Kløve11Kaveh Madani12School of Environment, College of Engineering University of Tehran Tehran IranSchool of Environment, College of Engineering University of Tehran Tehran IranDepartment of Agricultural and Biological Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Urbana IL USAInstitute of Research and Development Duy Tan University Da Nang VietnamKey Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing ChinaCivil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering Lulea University of Technology Lulea SwedenCivil Engineering Department Antalya Bilim University Antalya TurkeySchool of Environment, College of Engineering University of Tehran Tehran IranSchool of Agriculture Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Mashhad IranCollege of Engineering Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Mashhad IranWater, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, Faculty of Technology University of Oulu Oulu FinlandWater, Energy and Environmental Engineering Research Unit, Faculty of Technology University of Oulu Oulu FinlandCouncil on Middle East Studies, The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Yale University New Haven CT USAAbstract 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.https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001547 |
| spellingShingle | Mohsen Maghrebi Roohollah Noori Rabin Bhattarai Zaher Mundher Yaseen Qiuhong Tang Nadhir Al‐Ansari Ali Danandeh Mehr Abdolreza Karbassi Javad Omidvar Hossein Farnoush Ali Torabi Haghighi Bjørn Kløve Kaveh Madani Iran's Agriculture in the Anthropocene Earth's Future |
| title | Iran's Agriculture in the Anthropocene |
| title_full | Iran's Agriculture in the Anthropocene |
| title_fullStr | Iran's Agriculture in the Anthropocene |
| title_full_unstemmed | Iran's Agriculture in the Anthropocene |
| title_short | Iran's Agriculture in the Anthropocene |
| title_sort | iran s agriculture in the anthropocene |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001547 |
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