Tajikistan is an impoverished ex-Soviet mountainous country in Central Asia that is one of the world's worst-affected by climate change.
"I stress that every family in the country should have a stockpile of necessary food products for up to two years," President Emomali Rakhmon said in a speech during a Tajik traditional holiday late on Sunday.
"In connection to the changing and warming of the climate, the social-economic situation in the modern world is getting worse with every day," he said.
"In these difficult and unpredictable conditions of the modern world, we should work more effectively and use the earth and water with sense," he added.
According to the World Food Programme, 30 percent of Tajikistan's nine million people suffer from undernourishment.
The organisation links this to "soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, melting glaciers and extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, avalanches and landslides" that it says "regularly destroy land, crops, infrastructure and livelihoods."
Around half of Tajikistan's food is imported due to the fragile climate situation, the group said, with rising prices hitting the poorest Tajiks.
More than half of Tajikistan's population works in the agricultural sector, according to the World Bank.
Tajikistan has also suffered from knock-on effects from the war in Ukraine, as its main economic partner is Russia, which has ben hit with huge Western sanctions over the conflict.
Rakhmon -- who does not tolerate real political opposition -- is regularly greeted by piles of fruit when he travels across the country.
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