This paper identifies possible climate change responses that address agricultural production at the plant, and farm, regional scales. Critical components required for the strategic assessment of adaptation capacity and anticipatory adaptive planning is identified and examples of adaptive strategies for a number of key agricultural sectors are provided. Adaptation must be fully consistent with agricultural rural development activities that safeguard food security and increase the provision of sustainable ecosystem services, particularly where opportunities for additional financial flows may exist, such as payments for carbon sequestration and ecosystem conservation. Climate change will affect agriculture and forestry systems through higher temperatures, elevated CO2 concentration, precipitation changes, increased weeds, pests, and disease pressure, and increased vulnerability of organic carbon pools. Benefits of adaptation vary with crop species, temperature and rainfall changes. Useful synergies for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture, relevant to food security exist and should be incorporated into development, and climate policy. | Smart strategies for enhanced agricultural resilience and food security under a changing climate in irrigated agro-ecosystem of north west IGP: A review
