Climate Change National Adaptation Plan for Georgia’s Agriculture Sector

The Climate Change National Adaptation Plan for Georgia’s Agriculture Sector is a national sectoral plan of Georgia. Its vision is as follows: climate-smart agriculture is practiced in Georgia, ensuring the country’s food security, poverty elimination in the rural areas and sustainability of the agro-ecosystem services through introduction of the highly effective production methods and management of the climate change-associated risks.
The Adaptation Plan relies on the following key strategic directions of the Strategy for Agriculture Development in Georgia: improvement of competitiveness of those engaged in agrarian sector (improvement of the farmers’ awareness, vocational training, insurance market development, support to the cooperatives etc.); institutional development (basically implying development and enabling of the Ministry of Agriculture and its subordinated institutions); melioration and soil fertility (improvement of the irrigation and drainage systems, rea¬sonable use of the soils); regional and sector development – support to development of the complete production cycle adding value (production of the seeds and planting materials, their certification, development of the sector programs etc.); ensuring food security (monitoring); food safety, veterinary and plants protection; and support to introducing of the climate-smart agriculture practices, including, as such, sector adaptation to the climate change, as well as reduction of the processes negative¬ly impacting global warming in the sector.
The adaptation plan also provides for the impact of climate change on wheat production and recommended adaptation measures; impact of climate change on maize production in Zugdidi municipality and recommended adaptation measures; impact of climate change on potato production in certain regions of Georgia and recommended adaptation measures; impact of climate change on tangerine production in Ajara and recommended adaptation measures; climate change impact on production of hazelnut and adaptation measures; impact of climate change on pastures and recommended adaptation measures; and impact of climate change on livestock farming and adaptation measures.