Abstract

Evaluating performance of agricultural technology: a database for adaptation planning
Track: Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Affairs
Authors: Glenn Hyman, Ernesto Giron

Under climate change, farmers will have to adapt to higher temperatures and generally more variable weather, including the possibility of more droughts and more flooding. Global food security will in large part depend on how well they adapt to these changes. However, it is not clear how actors in the food chain will develop systems to adapt to climate change. One way to support adaptation planning is to analyze agricultural technology in places today that might be similar to future environments under climate change. Agricultural technologies that are currently adapted to heat, drought, excess water or pests and diseases associated with severe climate can be targeted to regions that are likely to suffer most from climate change. This project created a global database for evaluating the performance of agricultural technology at sites across the world. We show how this database can be used for modeling future adaptation to climate change.