Ensuring resilience of agriculture to climate change

At the same time, the environmental management of the state at the country level has been poor. This has only contributed to the aggravation of ecological problems. Sharp climate change has already become a constraint on the country’s economic growth, the main sector to suffer from it being the agriculture.

The 2020 drought is an eloquent example of this. Also in relation to this crisis the government has not shown any vision or taken firm actions. In this context, this analysis aims at under-standing how the changing climate conditions are affecting the dynamics of agriculture and at making recommendations on ensuring the resilience of the sector. The analysis confirms the conclusions of the State of the Country Report 2020 and underlines the importance of paying an increased attention to strengthening the immunity of the Republic of Moldova to climate vulnerabilities.

HOW CLIMATIC CONDITIONS HAVE EVOLVED IN REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

The intensification of climate change, characterized, in particular, by rising temperatures, is a global trend. In the Republic of Moldova, the records from the last two decades (1999-2019) show a clear increase in the average annual temperature by one degree Celsius. This development is characteristic for all regions of the country. Thus, in the entire country, in 2017-2019, the average annual temperature increased from 10.3 to 11.2 degrees Celsius compared to 1999-2001.

At the regional level, the following increases have been attested: from 9,2 to 10 degrees Celsius in the north of the country, from 10.8 to 11.5 degrees Celsius in the centre and from 10.9 to 12 degrees Celsius in the south. Also, the regression that describes the temperature trend over time reveals that the average temperature in the Republic of Moldova increases annually by about 0.06 degrees Celsius.