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Climate, Crop Production, and Water Resources in Western Asia

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Climate It strongly affects crops production and water abundance. Based on climate projections and registered data, climate change causes severe changes in the quantity and quality of water. In return, it negatively affects food security and likely increases the vulnerability of poor rural farmers, especially in dryish and semi-dryish places (FAO 2016). Yield reduction is expected in many zones as a result of more persistent droughts and less dependable water supplies resulting from temperatures rise (FAO 2021).

Crop production It is defined as the way of growing crops for domestic and commercial consumption. Crop production covers all sources of food which are demanded to preserve the humans and dairy herd (Tomasula and Nutter 2011).

Water resources These are defined as all available natural sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans use including household, industrial, agricultural, environmental, and possibly recreational activities.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

    Sama M. Al-Jubouri & Basma I. Waisi

  2. Department of Water Engineering, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

    Saeid Eslamian

  3. Center of Excellence in Risk Management and Natural Hazards, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

    Saeid Eslamian

  4. Al Nahrain Center for Strategic Studies, Baghdad, Iraq

    Zaid F. Makki

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, CHESTER, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Anabela Marisa Azul

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Al-Jubouri, S.M., Eslamian, S., Waisi, B.I., Makki, Z.F. (2021). Climate, Crop Production, and Water Resources in Western Asia. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Climate Action. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_138-1

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