Summary:

Key Vulnerabilities

  • Agriculture/Food Security
  • Water Resources
  • Public Health
  • Wildlife

Potential Adaptation Measures

Agriculture and Food Security

  • Educational & outreach activities to change management practices to those suited to climate change
  • Switch to different cultivars
  • Enhance irrigation efficiency and/or expand irrigation
  • Establish seed banks

Water Resources

  • Increase water supply, e.g. by using groundwater, building reservoirs, improving or stabilizing watershed management, desalination
  • Decrease water demands, e.g. by increasing efficiency, reducing water losses, water recycling, changing irrigation practices
  • Develop and introduce flood and drought monitoring and control system
  • Reduce water pollution
  • Improve or develop water management
Leading Organization:
UNFCCC Secretariat
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