Impact of climatic change on agricultural production and response strategies in China

A number of studies indicate increasing global climate warming especially in recent decades. Climate warming greatly influences global agro-production and food security — the focus of global environmental change. This paper proposes a structural and orientational framework for scientifically addressing climatic change impact on agro-production. Through literature review and comparative studies, the paper systematically summarizes influencing mechanisms and effect of climate warming on such agro-production factors as light, temperature, soil quality and water environment. The impact of climate warming on cultivation regions, cropping systems, crop pests, agro-production capacity, agro-economy and farm management is analyzed. Then, suitable climate-adapted agro-development strategies are put forward for different regions in China. The strategies are carefully selected from a repository of international tested climatic change countermeasures in agriculture at national or district level.