Shifting to Conservation Agriculture to Build
Resilience to Climate Change, Moldova,
Presentation by: Dr.Victor Rosca
Director CPIU-IFAD, Moldova
Global warming is the challenge of the
millennium
• The phenomenon is affecting not a single
country;
• Population growth and increased consumption
food, materials, goods lead to growth impact on
environment, which, if no action will be taken,
can lead to a collapse of global climate system;
• The climate change it is not any more only a
topic for discussion, it is a common action to
save the Earth, and by this to save our self.
Global warming is the challenge of the
millennium
• The scientific community faces the dilemma of
finding
a
compromise
between
economic
development and its effect on climate change;
• The problem of climate change can only be tackled
with the joint efforts of all states in the world, with no
any limitation to the size of the country and
experience it has, political orientation or economic
growth of it.
• Today meeting give us a chance to share solutions
and models, which can be replicable in other part of
the world.
Geographical position of Moldova
MOLDOVA
Projections
• Moldova has one of the most fertile soil
Cernozems, which is over 80% of the arable
land and which it is the most “fragile” in the
condition of climate change.
• IFAD it is present in Moldova for over 13
years, knowing needs and working closely
with Government of Moldova, has design
and implemented measures to reduce the
impact of climate change on agriculture.
Conservation agriculture – a feasible
method for facing climate change effect
• Conservation agriculture is an alternative to
both conventional and organic farming with
application of modern technologies to
improve the production and simultaneously
protecting land resources, reducing
production costs and making the agriculture
production less stressed to the climate
change.
Pillar I: Minimum intervention on soil
structure and compaction
Soil compaction on conventional
farming
Pillar II. Crop rotation, and crop
diversification
Pillar III: Mulching
IFAD interventions
• Provide long term investment loans for
procurement of agriculture machines for CA,
• Provide TA to farmers wishing to convert
farms from conventional to CA,
• Provide on farm professional training and
consultation,
• Establishment of Demonstration Plots,
• Establishment of partnership between CA
farmers and research and education
institutions.
On farm consulting and training
Results of interventions
• increased area under CA from 40.000 ha to 70.000 ha in
2012-2013,
• 4 demonstration plots upgraded with agriculture machines,
• Over 600 farmers were trained on principals of CA and are
wishing to convert theirs farms.
• Youth entrepreneurs are supported though a grant schema
to purchase equipment for CA,
• GoM is reimbursing partly cost for purchase of equipment
for CA.
Economic efficiency of solution
COSTS, USD/HA
Conventional
technology
Conservation
Agriculture
Fuel
72
24
Depreciation
110
60
22
10
35
45
125
95
Maintenance and
spare parts
Pesticides
Total costs per 1 T
Will survive not the strongest , will survive the most adaptive