Assessing adaptive management options to cope with climate change at the farm level

In recent years, considerable achievements have been made by several European climate research groups in gaining a better understanding of and in developing methodologies and tools for integrated, multiscale analyses of how to adapt agricultural systems to climate change. Efforts are under way to link these advancements with the CGIAR-led program on “Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security” (CCAFS) for the developing world. In this context some methodological advancements and findings are presented from Finnish and European collaborative research on integrated assessment and modeling (IAM) of agrifood systems in the context of climate change.