How will agriculture affect the resilience to climate change of surrounding habitats and communities- for example water availability, flooding, land use change, chemical harm on ecosystem functions related to climate resilience?
Background
Adaptation and resilience: Defra is the lead government department for climate adaptation, responsible for the assessment of appropriate action to protect and enhance natural and human systems in a changing climate. Also, for increasing resilience and mitigating against risk. Such assessment is used in many areas, including for the statutory requirement of the Climate Change Act to produce a 5-yearly, “Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) and National Adaptation Programme (NAP)”.
Although Defra has overarching responsibility for producing the CCRA and is responsible for managing several climate risks (such as impact on the natural environment), a number of climate risks (such as the impact on transport, health, business) are the responsibility of other government departments (for example Department for Transport (DfT), Department for Health (DfH), Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
Next steps
Get in touch with Research.Interests@defra.gov.uk
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Monitoring and predicting the effects of climate change on crop yields
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Funded by: UKRI
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on monitoring and predicting the effects of climate change on crop yields, which is directly related to the question about the impact of agriculture on surrounding habitats and communities.
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FACCE ERA-NET+ Climate Change Adaptability of cropping and Farming systems for Europe (Climate-CAFÉ)
The Climate-CAFE project focuses on increasing the "adaptive capacity" of arable and forage crops to climate change (CC). We will use an interdisciplinary approach to evaluate traditional and more novel regiona...
Funded by: BBSRC
Why might this be relevant?
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FACCE-JPI Knowledge Hub: MACSUR-Partner 143
FACCE MACSUR2 is made up of partners from over 70 European research institutes, working in three themes focused on crop, livestock and trade modelling. The knowledge hub will use networking and exchanges to further advan...
Funded by: BBSRC
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on modeling the impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security, including developing state-of-the-art climate change risk assessments for farming and food security.