For information on climate data:
- The World Bank’s Climate Change Knowledge Portal provides historical and future climate and climate-related datasets.
- The CCKP’s Country Adaptation and Risk Profiles synthesize and distill data sets for the purposes of the screening tool.
- Working Group I’s contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report presents the latest in observed climate changes and future climate projections.
For more information on how to assess climate change impacts on agriculture and natural resources:
- Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided is a World Bank report focused on the impacts of climate change on developing countries.
- Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts and the Case for Resilience builds on the previous report and focuses on impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia.
- Turn Down the Heat : Confronting the New Climate Normal is a World Bank Report that builds on previous reports and focuses on impacts to development in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and parts of Europe and Central Asia.
- The Handbook of Current and Next Generation Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment Tools, by the European Commission-funded BASIC project, identify models that can be used for impact and vulnerability assessments in the agriculture, forestry, and natural ecosystems sectors, and evaluates their strengths and weaknesses.
- World Bank’s Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management Projects – Note 3 presents guidance on assessing climate risk in agriculture and natural resources management projects.
- The FAO-MOSAICC (for Modeling System for Agricultural Impacts of Climate Change) is an integrated system of models to carry out an agricultural impact assessment at the national level. This includes a crop growth model to simulate future crop yields.
- Global Agro-Ecological Zones (Global – AEZ) is a program that provides a standardized framework for the characterization of climate, soil and terrain conditions relevant to agricultural production. It computes spatial and temporal data on maximum potential and attainable crop yields, as well as expected sustainable agricultural production potentials at different specified levels of inputs and management conditions.
- Socioeconomic Data and Application Center (SEDAC) provides data sets from two studies that assessed the effects of climate change on global food supply.
- The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) is a major international effort to produce improved crop and economic models and the next generation of climate impact projections for the agricultural sector
For more information on production methods and policies addressing climate change impacts on agriculture:
- Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Call to Action by the World Bank makes the case for climate-smart agriculture, and provides case studies of countries implementing these practices.
- “Climate-Smart” Agriculture: Policies, Practices and Financing for Food Security, Adaptation and Mitigation by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) uses case studies to outline a range of practices, approaches, and tools aimed at increasing the resilience and productivity of agricultural production systems in developing countries. The paper also surveys institutional and policy options available to promote the transition to climate-smart agriculture at the smallholder level.
- The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) report on Climate, Agriculture, and Food Security examines the impacts of climate change on agriculture, describes the existing knowledge on managing weather variability in agricultural systems, and identifies research gaps in building adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector.
- CGIAR’s Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Program Baseline Surveys include information on farmers’ current adaptive practices.
- The Adaptation and Mitigation Knowledge Network (AMKN) is a map-based platform for sharing knowledge on agricultural adaptation and mitigation from CIGAR and its partners.
- The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change report on Achieving food security in the face of climate change provides seven recommendations and practical policy actions to secure sustainable agriculture.
- The U.S. National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy is designed to help public and private decision makers address the impacts that climate change is having on natural resources.
- The Inter-American Development Bank’s fact sheet provides a brief overview of the climate risk management options available in the agriculture sector.
- The Asian Development Bank’s sector briefing provides an overview of the climate risks and impacts in the agriculture sector, as well as potential resilience measures to address these impacts.
For more information on climate change impacts on water and future irrigation needs:
- World Bank’s Prospects for Irrigated Agriculture paper examines predicted future irrigation needs and how to meet global food production in a water-constrained future.
- Water and Climate Change: Understanding the Risks and Making Climate-Smart Investment Decisions by the World Bank illustrates how climate change will affect hydrology and the resulting stress on and vulnerability of the water systems. The climate change dimension is also placed within the context of the impact of other factors outside the water sector. The analysis is intended to inform the World Bank water sector investments on climate issues and climate-smart adaptation options.
- The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) World Water and Climate Atlas gives irrigation and agricultural planners rapid access to accurate data on climate and moisture availability for agriculture including applications for determining how much irrigation is needed in relation to what the climate provides and extracting climate inputs for crop modeling.
- AQUASTAT developed by the FAO Land and Water Division is a global information system on water and agriculture. The database contains information on water resources, water uses, and agricultural water management with an emphasis on countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
- CROPWAT is a piece of software designed for the calculation of the right amount of water needed for the irrigation of crop fields.
- IWMI’s Online Irrigation Benchmarking Services provides background and guidelines to the benchmarking process and indicators, as well as options to add data online and view results by categories of irrigation system.
For more information on crop threshold capacities, including amount of water needed:
- The EcoCrop database is a tool to identify plant species for given environments and uses. It provides information on crop threshold capacities.
For more information on water drainage:
- The Center for Global Environmental Research at the National Institute for Environmental Studies has developed a Global Drainage Basin Database (GDBD) that provides basic information to a variety of water-related fields.
- The FAO Natural Resources and Environment Group document, Chapter 10. Surface Hydrology: Water Bodies, Water Point, Drainage and Watersheds outlines data supporting the representation or analysis of surface hydrological features including surface water bodies (SWB) and water points; surface drainage, rivers, and flow routing database; and watershed delineations and models.
For more information on climate change impacts on water resources and adaptation strategies:
- The IPCC Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water provides an in-depth analysis of observed and projected changes in climate as they relate to water. The paper evaluates regional impacts on water availability.
- The IPCC Technical Paper Linking Climate Change and Water Resources: impacts and responses www.ipcc.ch/pdf/technical-papers/ccw/chapter3.pdf describes predicted impacts on the water cycle and describes predicted impacts on different sectors, including agriculture.
- Presentations from the IPCC Technical workshop on water, climate change impacts and adaptation strategies http://unfccc.int/adaptation/workshops_meetings/nairobi_work_programme/items/6955.php give overviews on future climate impacts on water resources, explain observational data on water resources, assess vulnerabilities from climate impacts on water resources and explain adaptation planning practices related to water resources at different levels.
- Handbook of Current and Next Generation Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment Tools by the European Commission-funded BASIC project identifies models that can be used for impact and vulnerability assessments in the water resources sector, and evaluates their strengths and weaknesses.