Abstract
Building a resilient and sustainable agricultural sector requires the development and implementation of tailored climate change adaptation strategies. By focusing on durum wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum) in the Euro-Mediterranean region, we estimate the benefits of adapting through seasonal cultivar-selection supported by an idealised agro-climate service based on seasonal climate forecasts. The cost of inaction in terms of mean yield losses, in 2021-2040, ranges from -7.8% to -5.8% associated with a 7% to 12% increase in interannual variability. Supporting cultivar choices at local scale may alleviate these impacts and even turn them into gains, from 0.4% to 5.3%, as soon as the performance of the agro-climate service increases. However, adaptation advantages on mean yield may come with doubling the estimated increase in the interannual yield variability.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Journal | Communications Biology |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Nov 12 2022 |
Bibliographical note
KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-11-15Acknowledgements: This research has been supported by the EU-H2020 MedGOLD project under the grant agreement n. 776467 and by the EU-H2020 MindStep project n. 817566. We thank D. Fumagalli and M. Bratu for their support with the simulations.
