Climate change is likely to have significant impacts on the agricultural sector to
which farmers will have to adapt. While agriculture is a significant contributor to
greenhouse gas emissions, it is also a source of carbon storage in soils. This report
examines the economic and policy issues related to the impacts of climate change on
agriculture and adaptation responses and to the mitigation of greenhouse gases from
agriculture. It outlines research undertaken and underway in other national and international
research agencies. It also highlights some of the knowledge gaps on the impacts of
climate change on food production and the uncertainties of those impacts in a global
context that warrant further research efforts. In particular, the report analyses
marginal abatement cost curves, which show the relative costs of achieving reductions
in greenhouse gas emission through the implementation of different actions in the
agricultural sector. The aim of the report is to help guide policy makers in the design
of policies to address climate change issues in agriculture.