Climate Change Research ›› 2025, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (5): 613-624.doi: 10.12006/j.issn.1673-1719.2025.073

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Review and prospect of agricultural adaptive capacity building to climate change in China

ZHANG Xin-Yue, LI Kuo, ZHAO Ming-Yue, XU Yin-Long()   

  1. Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
  • Received:2025-04-02 Revised:2025-06-18 Online:2025-09-30 Published:2025-09-01

Abstract:

As agricultural production faces an increasing risk of climate change, there is an urgent need to strengthen adaptive capacity building in order to promote extensive agricultural adaptation actions. This paper synthesizes the progress of scientific understanding on agricultural adaptation to climate change and the scientific support on adaptation actions with literature review, and then summarizes the progress and shortcomings in the capacity building for agricultural adaptation to climate change according to the logical layers of efficient utilization of agro-climatic resources, agricultural disaster prevention and alleviation, ecological governance and climate risk management. Presently, the description on adaptive capacity building in the published literatures, reports, and policy documents is too general. This paper presents an effort on in-depth investigation how to increase agricultural adaptive capacity. The capacity building for efficient utilization of agro-climatic resources, agro-meteorological disaster reduction, ecological governance, and agricultural management is clarified as utilizing thermal climatic resources and water resources; lowering the climatic hazards, diminishing exposure, decreasing vulnerability of climate change-affected agricultural systems; increasing the agricultural ecosystem services of food production and supply, regulation, supporting, and cultural function; enhancing the research and development of agricultural adaptation technologies, innovating the financing mechanism, and improving policies and legislation, respectively. Finally, it proposes a series of recommendations for the enhancement of future agricultural adaptive capacity building, including the systematic evaluation of agricultural climate risk, identification of adaptation priorities, construction of agricultural adaptation technology system, formulation of agricultural adaptation plan, and raising public awareness regarding adaptation to climate change.

Key words: Adaptation, Climate change, Capacity building, Agriculture

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