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摘要

High population growth and hence high demand for food and nutrition, competing demands for naturalresources (land and water) by various sectors, sustainability issue and climate change have turnedagriculture from a localized vocation into a country level and international concern to improve crop,water and land productivity to effi ciently support life on the earth without degrading the resource bases(environment).Promoting climate friendly and resilient agriculture and improving processes to preserve the environment,requires clear understanding of the multi-dimensional cause and effect mechanisms. As such, climatechange adaptation is a research fi eld which is constantly evolving. New technical options for adaptingto these climate change impacts are being devised. Farmers, authorities and experts should be able toexchange and constantly integrate new information, such as climate information into their adaptationstrategies across sectors at all levels.