Climate change and irrigation water need sensitivity analysis

AbstractIrrigated agriculture vulnerability studies to climate change are evaluated by irrigation water needs impacts due to temperature and precipitation changes. These tasks are based on climate change models and aim to develop and propose adaptation and mitigation strategies measures to the water management sector. In this study, relative impact of irrigation water need due to climate change and field practices were evaluated. Even though it has been shown that climate change has impacted the irrigation water demand increase, sensitivity analysis has indicated that water demand is more sensible to final irrigation efficiency, revealing itself as an important adaptation measure to be considered