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"No-regrets" strategies to adjust agriculture to the realities of climate change need to be taken now.

CGIAR Climate's insight:
Op-ed in Al-Jazeera by Sonja Vermeulen, Head of Research CCAFS and Andy Challinor, University of Leeds. New article presented: Addressing Uncertainty in Adaptation Planning for Agriculture, a study published online at PNAS.org - "Global temperatures have not been this high in at least 4,000 years. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere today - 400 parts per million - has not been this high for three million years. Climate change has moved from an abstract concept to a basic fact of nature, and scientists have been researching its effects on food production and prices."