Assessing the Impact, Vulnerability and Adaptation of Agroecosystems to Climate Change in Entre Ríos, Argentina.

Climate change has an important impact on agriculture productivity, challenging stable food supply by droughts, floods, heat, torrential rains and hail events. Agriculture contributes to climate change with emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) (Figure 1). On the other side, some of the impacts of climate change like the increase of spring-summer precipitation, higher temperatures and less days with freezing temperatures in some areas have helped agriculture to move into marginal areas. The need to assess the impact of, and vulnerability, mitigation and adaptation to climate change of agroecosystems ranges from stakeholders to policy makers across the globe. The National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA, Argentina) has a National Program that includes research and extension to evaluate the impact, and develop practices to mitigate and improve adaptation of agroecosystems to climate change. Our objective is to present a framework to assess the climate change impact, vulnerability and adaptation at the regional level in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. This framework is proposed in two steps: 1) Assessment of Impact and Vulnerability of agroecosystems across the landscape; 2) Assesment of Adaptation and Mitigation strategies for across the landscape.