The Pacific Northwest Reacch Experience.

Regional Approaches to Climate Change for Pacific Northwest Agriculture (REACCH) is a large, USDA NIFA-sponsored Coordinated Agricultural Project, focused on responses to projected climate change on wheat-based production systems in the rain-fed wheat systems of the eastern Washington, Northern Idaho and Northeastern Oregon. The project, in its sixth and final year, is transdisciplinary, involving, physical, social, biological, ecological, and production-focused disciplines, engagement with stakeholders and educational elements from K-20. This talk will provide an overview focused on highlights of project outputs, activities and impacts. It will review the principal challenges faced during its implementation and the approaches, successes and  lessons learned in meeting them. It will conclude with lessons learned for similarly large-scale, integrated projects to address responses of production systems to drivers of change.