TY - JOUR
T1 - Climate service driven adaptation may alleviate the impacts of climate change in agriculture
AU - Toreti, Andrea
AU - Bassu, Simona
AU - Asseng, Senthold
AU - Zampieri, Matteo
AU - Ceglar, Andrej
AU - Royo, Conxita
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-11-15
Acknowledgements: This research has been supported by the EU-H2020 MedGOLD project under the grant agreement n. 776467 and by the EU-H2020 MindStep project n. 817566. We thank D. Fumagalli and M. Bratu for their support with the simulations.
PY - 2022/11/12
Y1 - 2022/11/12
N2 - Building a resilient and sustainable agricultural sector requires the development and implementation of tailored climate change adaptation strategies. By focusing on durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum) in the Euro-Mediterranean region, we estimate the benefits of adapting through seasonal cultivar-selection supported by an idealised agro-climate service based on seasonal climate forecasts. The cost of inaction in terms of mean yield losses, in 2021-2040, ranges from -7.8% to -5.8% associated with a 7% to 12% increase in interannual variability. Supporting cultivar choices at local scale may alleviate these impacts and even turn them into gains, from 0.4% to 5.3%, as soon as the performance of the agro-climate service increases. However, adaptation advantages on mean yield may come with doubling the estimated increase in the interannual yield variability.
AB - Building a resilient and sustainable agricultural sector requires the development and implementation of tailored climate change adaptation strategies. By focusing on durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum) in the Euro-Mediterranean region, we estimate the benefits of adapting through seasonal cultivar-selection supported by an idealised agro-climate service based on seasonal climate forecasts. The cost of inaction in terms of mean yield losses, in 2021-2040, ranges from -7.8% to -5.8% associated with a 7% to 12% increase in interannual variability. Supporting cultivar choices at local scale may alleviate these impacts and even turn them into gains, from 0.4% to 5.3%, as soon as the performance of the agro-climate service increases. However, adaptation advantages on mean yield may come with doubling the estimated increase in the interannual yield variability.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/685664
UR - https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-04189-9
U2 - 10.1038/s42003-022-04189-9
DO - 10.1038/s42003-022-04189-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 36371540
SN - 2399-3642
VL - 5
JO - Communications Biology
JF - Communications Biology
IS - 1
ER -
