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Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Adaptation

Elizabeth Marshall and, Marcel Aillery (November, 2015)

Summary

As a result, farmers have developed strategies for responding to local weather patterns and variability, including changes in planting dates, crops planted, and production methods used in accordance with spring weather conditions. National and global shifts in climate, however, present new challenges as agriculture faces unfamiliar climatic conditions and greater incidence of extreme weather.