Adaptation pathways of global wheat production: Importance of strategic adaptation to climate change.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural adaptation is necessary to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on crop yields and to maintain food production. However, few studies have assessed the course of adaptation along with the progress of climate change in each of the current major food producing countries. Adaptation pathways, which describe the temporal sequences of adaptations, are helpful for illustrating the timing and intensity of the adaptation required. Here we present adaptation pathways in the current major wheat-producing countries, based on sequential introduction of the minimum adaptation measures necessary to maintain current wheat yields through the 21st century. We considered two adaptation options: (i) expanding irrigation infrastructure; and (ii) switching crop varieties and developing new

SUBMITTER: Tanaka A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4571615 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature