Studies from Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Add New Findings in the Area of Climate Change [Adapting Cropping Patterns to Climate Change: Risk Management Effectiveness of Diversification and Irrigation in Brandenburg …]: Climate Change

2023 OCT 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New study results on climate change have been published. According to news originating from Muncheberg, Germany, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Climate-induced production risk is expected to increase in the future. This study assesses the effectiveness of adapting crop rotations on arable farms in Brandenburg as a tool to enhance climate resilience.”

Financial supporters for this research include Zalf Internal Research Budget.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research: “Two risk-minimizing measures are investigated: crop diversification and the inclusion of irrigated crops. Based on state-wide simulated yield data, the study compares two different scenarios. In the first scenario, the most profitable crop rotations based on predicted future weather conditions are chosen for each agro-ecological zone. In the second scenario, cropping plans are derived based on an adaption of the Target MOTAD (Minimization of Total Absolute Deviation) model taking climate-induced risks into account. A comparison of the scenarios shows a high risk reduction effect of diversification, while the economic risk reduction effect of irrigation only increases slightly. The trade-off between the highest possible gross margins and lower possible losses varies depending on the soil and climate conditions.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Diversification contributed most to economic resilience in areas with moderate to low agricultural productivity. Subsidies focusing on diversification in less productive areas might be a tool to increase economic resilience with low risk-avoidance costs.”

For more information on this research see: Adapting Cropping Patterns to Climate Change: Risk Management Effectiveness of Diversification and Irrigation in Brandenburg (Germany). Agriculture, 2023,13(1740):1740. (Agriculture - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/agriculture). The publisher for Agriculture is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13091740.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Hannah Jona von Czettritz, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, 15374 Muncheberg, Germany. Additional authors for this research include Seyed-Ali Hosseini-Yekani, Johannes Schuler, Kurt-Christian Kersebaum, Peter Zander.

(Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.)