o:716 CLIMATE CHANGE AS THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE INTENSIFICATION OF ACRICULTURAL LAND USE en Abstract: Climate change in Europe will lead to new precipitation patterns over the next few years and the annual temperature will increase significantly. These changes in climate variables and the resulting effects on agricultural productivity must be differentiated regionally. Plant production depends on sufficient rainfall in summer and, in some regions, on the amount of rainfall in winter. In Central Europe, the amount of precipitation in summer will decrease in the coming decades due to climate change, in some regions the amount of winter precipitation will increase significantly. Agricultural production can suffer severely as a result of rising summer temperatures and low water retention capacities in the soil. The effects of climate change were examined and described 15 years ago. They were examined on the basis of scenarios using plant simulation models. The effects of reduced summer precipitation and increased air temperatures are partially offset by the expected increased CO2 concentration. Therefore, the effects of changed climatic conditions on crop production are sometimes less drastic on crop yields. The greatest impact of climate change on land use is expected from increasing evapotranspiration and lower amounts of precipitation in the production of leachate. In addition to the expected mean changes, the occurrence of extreme weather conditions is decisive. Here, periods of drought in the growing season and heavy flooding as a result of extreme rainfall are to be expected. However, these events are very difficult or impossible to predict! In addition to the effects of climate change on regional crop production, global changes will have a strong impact on world markets for agricultural products. Another consequence of climate change and population growth is a higher demand for agricultural products on world markets. This will lead to dramatic local land use changes and intensification of agriculture that will transform existing crop production systems. The intensification caused by rising land and lease prices will primarily affect the maximization of the use of fertilizers and pesticides. climate change, crop production, intensification of land use, water balance, global agricultural production, sustainability, population growth. 2022-10-06T11:13:54.758Z 44 no 46 Frank Eulenstein Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research 46 Elmira Saljnikov Institut za zemljište 0000-0002-6497-2066 46 Sergey Lukin Russian Institute for Organic Fertilization and Peat 46 Askhad Sheudshen Kuban State Agrarian University, Faculty of Agrochemistry and Soil Science 46 Olga Rukhovich Pryanishnikov All-Russian Institute of Agrochemistry 46 Uwe Schindler Mitscherlich Academy for Soil Fertility 46 Galymzhan Saparov U.U.Uspanov Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry 46 Konstantin Pachikin U.U.Uspanov Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry 46 Matthias Thielicke Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research 46 Axel Behrendt Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research 46 Armin Werner Lincoln Agritech Ltd, Lincoln University 46 Lothar Müller Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research application/pdf 334986 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:716 no yes 1 70 1556237 71A05 BOOK OF PROCEEDINGS 3 rd International and 15th National Congress SOILS FOR FUTURE UNDER GLOBAL CHALLENGES 32 41 Serbian Society of Soil Science 2021