Adaptation Actions

Agro Future Climate Stress uses climate projections to assess changes in crop and livestock stress in Greece, map favourable and unfavourable areas for crop cultivation and livestock farming, and propose climate change adaptation measures. The project examines water stress in widely grown crops (wheat and olives) and heat stress in commonly farmed livestock (cattle and sheep). The future of these agricultural activities is critical to food availability and security and has a significant impact on the agricultural economy and farmers’ incomes.

Climate projections are produced using the high-resolution WRF regional model for 2045–2054 (future period) and 2015–2024 (reference period), under two emissions scenarios, SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5. Water and heat stress levels are calculated for both periods and compared with the reference period to assess future changes for the crops and livestock studied.

The results will be published in scientific journals, presented in GIS maps and used to produce guides for crop and livestock farmers, recommending good practices for coping with and adapting to increasing stress.