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Adaptation strategies for agriculture and irrigation sector

Agriculture adaptation strategies	Irrigation adaptation strategies
1. Assisting farmers in coping with current climatic risk	1. Increasing the availability of useable water
Improving collection and dissemination of weather information	Water harvesting and storage
Establishment of a regional early warning system of climatic risks	Increasing groundwater recharge
Promoting insurance for climatic risk management	Recycling wastewater
2. Intensifying food production systems	2. Increasing the efficiency of water use
Bridging yield gaps in crops	Laser levelling of irrigated areas
Enhancing livestock productivity	Micro-irrigation
Enhancing fisheries	Adjusting crop agronomy
3. Improving land and water management	3. Groundwater management
Implementing strategies for more efficient water conservation and use	Managed aquifer recharge
Managing coastal ecosystems	Rationing electrical power supply
Increasing the dissemination of resource conserving technologies	Integration of surface and groundwater resource
Exploiting the irrigation and nutrient supply potential of treated wastewaters
4. Enabling policies and regional cooperation	4. Water transfer between basins
Integrating adaptation in current policy considerations
Providing incentives for resource conservation
Securing finances and technologies for adaptation
5. Strengthening research for enhancing adaptive capacity	5. Trans-boundary cooperation between different states
Evolving adverse climate tolerant genotypes
Evaluating the biophysical and economic potential of various adaptation strategies
6. Use of information and communication technology in water resource management

Agriculture adaptation strategies	Irrigation adaptation strategies
1. Assisting farmers in coping with current climatic risk	1. Increasing the availability of useable water
Improving collection and dissemination of weather information	Water harvesting and storage
Establishment of a regional early warning system of climatic risks	Increasing groundwater recharge
Promoting insurance for climatic risk management	Recycling wastewater
2. Intensifying food production systems	2. Increasing the efficiency of water use
Bridging yield gaps in crops	Laser levelling of irrigated areas
Enhancing livestock productivity	Micro-irrigation
Enhancing fisheries	Adjusting crop agronomy
3. Improving land and water management	3. Groundwater management
Implementing strategies for more efficient water conservation and use	Managed aquifer recharge
Managing coastal ecosystems	Rationing electrical power supply
Increasing the dissemination of resource conserving technologies	Integration of surface and groundwater resource
Exploiting the irrigation and nutrient supply potential of treated wastewaters
4. Enabling policies and regional cooperation	4. Water transfer between basins
Integrating adaptation in current policy considerations
Providing incentives for resource conservation
Securing finances and technologies for adaptation
5. Strengthening research for enhancing adaptive capacity	5. Trans-boundary cooperation between different states
Evolving adverse climate tolerant genotypes
Evaluating the biophysical and economic potential of various adaptation strategies
6. Use of information and communication technology in water resource management

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