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CCAFS charts a path for farmers to adapt to climate shifts despite uncertainties about what growing conditions will look like decades from now. New article. “Climate projections will always have a degree of uncertainty, but we need to stop using uncertainty as a rationale for inaction,” said Sonja Vermeulen, head of research at CCAFS and the lead author of the study. “Even when our knowledge is incomplete, we often have robust grounds for choosing best-bet adaptation actions and pathways, by building pragmatically on current capacities in agriculture and environmental management, and using projections to add detail and to test promising options against a range of scenarios.” - See more at: http://www.thecropsite.com/articles/1569/report-identifies-regretfree-approaches-for-adapting-agriculture-to-climate-change#sthash.vuqjICIR.dpuf“Climate projections will always have a degree of uncertainty, but we need to stop using uncertainty as a rationale for inaction,” said Sonja Vermeulen, head of research at CCAFS and the lead author of the study. “Even when our knowledge is incomplete, we often have robust grounds for choosing best-bet adaptation actions and pathways, by building pragmatically on current capacities in agriculture and environmental management, and using projections to add detail and to test promising options against a range of scenarios.” - See more at: http://www.thecropsite.com/articles/1569/report-identifies-regretfree-approaches-for-adapting-agriculture-to-climate-change#sthash.vuqjICIR.dpufWhether it’s swapping coffee for cocoa in Central America or bracing for drought in Sri Lanka with a return to ancient water storage systems, findings from a new report from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) chart a path for farmers to adapt to climate shifts despite uncertainties about what growing conditions will look like decades from now. - See more at: http://www.thecropsite.com/articles/1569/report-identifies-regretfree-approaches-for-adapting-agriculture-to-climate-change#sthash.vuqjICIR.dpufWhether it’s swapping coffee for cocoa in Central America or bracing for drought in Sri Lanka with a return to ancient water storage systems, findings from a new report from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) chart a path for farmers to adapt to climate shifts despite uncertainties about what growing conditions will look like decades from now. - See more at: http://www.thecropsite.com/articles/1569/report-identifies-regretfree-approaches-for-adapting-agriculture-to-climate-change#sthash.vuqjICIR.dpufWhether it’s swapping coffee for cocoa in Central America or bracing for drought in Sri Lanka with a return to ancient water storage systems, findings from a new report from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) chart a path for farmers to adapt to climate shifts despite uncertainties about what growing conditions will look like decades from now. - See more at: http://www.thecropsite.com/articles/1569/report-identifies-regretfree-approaches-for-adapting-agriculture-to-climate-change#sthash.vuqjICIR.dpufWhether it’s swapping coffee for cocoa in Central America or bracing for drought in Sri Lanka with a return to ancient water storage systems, findings from a new report from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) chart a path for farmers to adapt to climate shifts despite uncertainties about what growing conditions will look like decades from now. - See more at: http://www.thecropsite.com/articles/1569/report-identifies-regretfree-approaches-for-adapting-agriculture-to-climate-change#sthash.vuqjICIR.dpuf