ALM UNDP

Summary:

Czech Republic - Fourth National Communication - 3 February 2006

Key Vulnerabilities

• Agriculture and Food Security
• Water Resources
• Forest Ecosystems

Potential Adaptation Measures

Agriculture and Food Security

• Prepare a new land assessment for ecological land units for an alternative that takes into account a change in the climate and evaluate the production potential of the units.
• Provide for protection of the soil against erosion and other negative effects caused by cultivation, e.g. by compacting, reduction of fertilization with organic fertilizers.
• Accelerate the completion of land-use measures so as to define areas for land-improvement and measures in the landscape.
• Concentrate subsidy titles in agriculture on support for protective measures in the landscape and expansion of environmentally sound farming.
• Increase the variety of the landscape and, in this sense, select the composition of cultivated species of agricultural crops and farm animals. Introduce some other crops and improvement procedures for improving the adaptability of selected species to expected changes in climatic conditions.
• Change the structure of agricultural crops in a targeted manner to create a compromise between habitat and economic conditions, to fulfil the requirements for a certain degree of variety in the agro-ecosystem and avoid unsuitable, long-term, single-species crops. In dry areas, concentrate on crops with a shorter vegetation period and lower moisture requirements.
• Select agro-technical procedures that minimize the loss of soil moisture.

Water Resources

• Assessment of the technical condition of the individual water structures and the potential for further intensification;
• Revision of the manipulation regulations for water structures as a consequence of changes in requirements on water use after 1990;
• Estimation of the free capacities of sources and proposal of a means of their use on the basis of re-evaluation of the proposed parameters of water works;
• Determination of the present state of demands on sources as the starting state prior to climate change;
• Determination of the future requirements for the individual kinds of water use in the region and any relevant priorities.

Forest Ecosystems

• Educational & outreach activities to change management practices to those suited to climate change
• Improve and conserve soils
• Enhance irrigation efficiency and/or expand irrigation