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A recent study claimed the kingdom could have 30 percent less...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEAD IN : \u003cbr/\u003e              Studies suggest Jordan is being hit hard by climate change, with the country getting hotter and drier than previously anticipated. \u003cbr/\u003e              A recent study claimed the kingdom could have 30 percent less rainfall by 2100 unless cliamte change is addressed.\u003cbr/\u003e              Already the olive harvest has been delayed by drought and this year's crop is expected to be disappointing. \u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE: \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND: \"Come on guys, let's finish, let's go before the sun falls, come on .. let's go – let's go\"\u003cbr/\u003e              It's a race again time for olives farmers in Jordan. \u003cbr/\u003e              They had been waiting for weeks for signs that their precious crop was ready to be harvested, the fruit was slow to ripen this year due to drought. \u003cbr/\u003e              Farmer Ali Shaher Ebeidat, is gloomy about the prospects for this year's crop. \u003cbr/\u003e              \" In the previous years one sack (olivess) was making 12 kilos (of oil), this year it will be good if it makes 8 kilos oil\". The olives is not growing the right way and the tree is thirsty, too much, because of the shortage of rain\"   \u003cbr/\u003e              Normally harvest time is a family affair with a festive atomsphere, relations return from the city to help out. \u003cbr/\u003e              A villager who owns twenty hectares of olives groves could normally expect to produce 20-25 olive oil cans of 16 kilos each, according to many farmers, while for this year the same land of twenty hectares is expected to yield just a third of the average crop. \u003cbr/\u003e              Scarity will raise the price for this essential component of nearly every Jordanian meal, the economic impact trickling though society. \u003cbr/\u003e              Jordanians don't need scientists to tell them that they live in one of the world's driest countries in the centre of the planet's most water-poor region.\u003cbr/\u003e              But recent studies suggest the kingdom, a Western ally and refugee host nation with a growing population, is being hit particularly hard by climate change - getting hotter and drier than previously anticipated.\u003cbr/\u003e              One forecast predicts as much as 30 percent less rain by 2100. \u003cbr/\u003e              Stanford University researchers said that in the absence of international climate policy action, the kingdom would have 30 percent less rainfall by 2100.\u003cbr/\u003e              Annual average temperatures would increase by 4.5 degrees Celsius (8.1 degrees Fahrenheit) and the number and duration of droughts would double, compared to the 1981-2010 period.\u003cbr/\u003e              The results, published in the journal Science Advances and based on improved data analysis tools, suggest the impact of climate change is likely to be more severe than anticipated.\u003cbr/\u003e              Omar Dajani, a meterologist at Arabia Weather, says that we can not yet tell if the country's lack of rainfall can be attributed to climate change. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"There is no stability in the rain quantities, there is indeed rain shortage periods, this is what affects directly the farmers. Farmers like to have a continuous rainfall season like what happened in 2015 but in the previous year and this year it's clear that there is a rain shortage, there is delay in rainfall, which adds more difficulties and costs on farmers. It's not possible to judge if there is a climate change counting on one only season\".\u003cbr/\u003e              The World Bank named Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco and Syria as the countries in the Middle East and North Africa that will experience significantly increased water stress driven by climate change.\u003cbr/\u003e              The bank's report in August described the region as the \"global hotspot of unsustainable water use.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              More than 50 percent of Jordan's water is used for agriculture which produces only a small share of the local food supply.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Irbid, Jordan - 10 November 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Wide of exterior of a farmer collecting olives from a tree with others on a farm\u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (Arabic) Farmers (no names available) \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Come on guys, let's finish, let's go before the sun falls, come on .. let's go – let's go\"\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Various of farmers collecting olives from trees\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Wide of a woman collecting olives\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Wide of a man putting coll\u003cbr/\u003e              ected olives in a container \u003cbr/\u003e              5. Wide top shot of farmers gathering collected olives\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Wide of farmers gathering collected olives\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Close of collected olives\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Wide of a man gathering collected olives in a container \u003cbr/\u003e              9. Man pours olives into a sack (screen goes black)\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Shaher Ebeidat, Farmer\u003cbr/\u003e              \" In the previous years one sack (olives) was making 12 kilos (of oil), this year it will be good if it makes 8 kilos of oil\". \u003cbr/\u003e              11. Medium of a man collecting olives from a tree\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Close of a man's hands collecting olives from a tree\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Shaher Ebeidat, Farmer\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The olives is not growing the right way and the tree is thirsty, too much, because of the shortage of rain\"   \u003cbr/\u003e              14. Various farmer gathering collected olives (screen goes black)\u003cbr/\u003e              Kfarat province, north of Irbid - 10 November 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Wide of the exterior of olives press (Al Besharat) \u003cbr/\u003e              15. Close of sacks filled with collected olives put at the entrance of the press in queue to be pressed to make oil\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Various of an interior of the oil press and making olive oil\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Various woman waiting for her olives to be pressed\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Various of making olive oil at the press\u003cbr/\u003e              Amman - 10 November 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Close of screens showing weather maps\u003cbr/\u003e              20. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Omar Dajani, Meterologist at Arabia Weather \u003cbr/\u003e              \"There is no stability in the rain quantities, there is indeed rain shortage periods, this is what affects directly the farmers. Farmers like to have a continuous rainfall season like what happened in 2015 but in the previous year and this year it's clear that there is a rain shortage, there is delay in rainfall, which adds more difficulties and costs on farmers. \" \u003cbr/\u003e              21. Weather expert looking at weather maps screens.\u003cbr/\u003e              22. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Omar Dajani, Meterologist at Arabia Weather \" It's not possible to judge if there is a climate change counting on one only season\".\u003cbr/\u003e              Wadi Rum - 10 November 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              23. 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