Building a Line of Defense Against Climate Change : From Reactive Coping to Adaptive Capacity in China's Irrigated Agricultural Development

Climate change threatens to undermine decades of development achievements in China's Huang-Huai-Hai River Basin. Farmers in the 3H Basin have long been plagued by water scarcity and frequent droughts and floods. Development efforts have succeeded in relieving some of these pressures, but the effects of climate change put these achievements in jeopardy. The mainstreaming climate change adaptation in irrigated agriculture project, funded under the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and integrated into the World Bank's Third Irrigated Agriculture Intensification Project, has been building a line of defense against the looming consequences of climate change on agricultural communities in China. The project was recognized as good adaptation practice in the 2011 world resources report as well as the SCCF evaluation of the independent GEF (Global Environment Facility) Evaluation Office. This smart lesson describes how the project created long-term adaptive capacity for affected communities to support sustainable irrigated agriculture in rural China.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Conrad, Bjorn, Li, Qun
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012-01
Subjects:	ADAPTATION ACTIVITIES, ADAPTATION IN AGRICULTURE, ADAPTATION MEASURES, ADAPTATION PRACTICE, ADAPTATION PROJECT, ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE, ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE, ADAPTIVE CAPACITY, ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUES, ADMINISTRATIVE BODIES, AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT, CLIMATE, CLIMATE ADAPTATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION POLICY, CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGES, CLIMATE CHANGE CONDITIONS, CLIMATE CHANGE FUND, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS, CLIMATE CHANGE INFORMATION, CLIMATE CONDITIONS, CLIMATE EFFECTS, CLIMATE MODELING, CLIMATE MODELS, CLIMATE THREATS, CLIMATIC CIRCUMSTANCES, CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, COPING CAPACITY, DRINKING WATER, DROUGHT, EFFECTIVENESS OF ADAPTATION, EXTREME WEATHER, EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS, FEASIBILITY, FLOODS, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY, GLOBAL WARMING, IMPACT ANALYSIS, IMPLEMENT ADAPTATION, IMPLEMENTATION OF ADAPTATION, IMPLEMENTATION OF ADAPTATION ACTIVITIES, INCOME, INFORMATION ON CLIMATE, INTERNATIONAL SCIENTISTS, LOCAL COMMUNITIES, MAINSTREAMING ADAPTATION, PRECIPITATION, RAINFALL, RAINWATER, REGIONAL CLIMATE, RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, RIVER BASIN, SCIENTIST, SEASON, WATER AVAILABILITY, WATER DEMAND, WATER MANAGEMENT, WATER RESOURCES, WATER SCARCITY, WATER SECTOR, WATER SUPPLY, WATER USE, WATER USERS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16234344/building-line-defense-against-climate-change-reactive-coping-adaptive-capacity-chinas-irrigated-agricultural-development https://hdl.handle.net/10986/10420
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