Название практики | Increasing water availability of pastures by constructing sardobas | Water-charging irrigation for rangelands used for growing forage crops |
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Category | Water resources | Water resources |
Tool | System for enhancing water availability | Irrigation technique and technology |
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• Use of water resources |
Usability of practice for adaptation to climate change | Moderate | High |
Implemented by | Ministry of Nature Conservation of Turkmenistan |
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Country: Turkmenistan |
Country: Kazakhstan Province: Jambyl Region District: Talas District Other settlement: Village of Sadu Shakirov |
Local specifics | 17,238 ha of barkhan (sand dune), takyr (dry-type playa) and solonchak (moist-type playa) sites of the Kara Kum Desert; deep ground water occurrence |
The site is located in the desert foothill plain in South-ern Kazakhstan (internal drain area) at the very end of Sharuashlyk Irrigation Canal. |
Practice usage period |
Start date: 01.01.2012 End date: 31.12.2016 |
Start date: 01.05.2008 End date: 30.04.2009 |
Problem solved through this practice | Desertification and decreased productivity of desert pastures due to over-grazing around existing cattle watering sites |
Acute water shortage; land degradation in the village of Sadu Shakirov; abandoned irrigated arable lands used only for year-round cattle grazing. For a long time, the irrigation canal was not operation-al and, thus, became dilapidated. The situation in the area was aggravated by climate change impacts (de-creased quantity of early spring, summer and winter precipitation, increased average annual temperature, spring and autumn frost bites and summer droughts). |
Tools used in the practice | Technology of building sardobas (stone-dome covered water collection and storage reservoirs) to enhance pasture water supply |
Method of autumn and winter water-charging irrigation |
Description of the practice and its results | Main actions:
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Actions: Results: Financial and economic: Technical: |
Lessons learnt and recommendations made | Lessons learnt: Construction of sardobas in takyr areas allows enhancing pasture water supply, thus, leading to the restoration of over-grazed pastures. Recommendations: The practice requires long-term planning and an integrated response with the early-on engagement of desertification experts (designing a set of measures to protect takyrs from sand drifts), state agencies (technical assistance) and pasture users (observance of pasture rotation schemes, prevention of takyrs from contamination and pollution). |
Lessons learnt: Application of water-charging irrigation demonstrated the efficiency of water use and allowed local popula-tion to go through winter without losing livestock. Recommendations: |
Source of practice | Traditional tools transferred from generation to generation that proved their efficiency in modern conditions |
Traditional tools transferred from generation to generation that proved their efficiency in modern conditions |
Readiness for implementation |
1. Cost of implementation: Low 2. Approximate cost of investment per 1 ha: $1,000-5,000 3. O&M costs: Low 4. Expert support: Needed at implementation stage |
1. Cost of implementation: High 2. Approximate cost of investment per 1 ha: 3. O&M costs: High 4. Expert support: Not needed |
Brief information on the project | Project title: Responding to climate change risks for dekhan farming system of Turkmenistan on national and local levels. Project duration: 2012-2016. Project goal and objectives: build the adaptation capacity to respond to climate change impacts, including variability on local and national levels. Project beneficiaries: Bori Settlement (over 1,100 people) and Bo-Kurdak Settlement (about 4,500 people). Project implementer: Ministry of Nature Conservation and UNDP |
Project title: Fall and early spring Irrigation of arable land and pastures as an adaptation mechanism of ra-tional water use in Southern Kazakhstan Duration: May 1, 2008 – April 30, 2009 Project goal and objectives: reduce land degradation due to climate change by way of rational use of irriga-tion water. The project was implemented to prevent loss of cattle due to forage shortage during alternating droughty years. Project beneficiaries: local population. Project implementer: Kogal LLC |
Funding source | Government of Turkmenistan, Adaptation Facility | Kogal LLC |
Information sources | 1) UNDP Compilation “Climate change adaptation: ex-amples from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan”, Tashkent 2012; |
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Contacts of a person, who filled this form | SIC ICWC |
SIC ICWC |
Form submission date | 04.04.2018 | 29.03.2018 |