Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- I -- M -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Part A: Climate Change and Agriculture -- The Case for Action -- Vulnerability of the Agriculture Sector to Climate Change -- Adaptation Options in Agriculture Sector Investments -- Engineering Options -- Non-Engineering Options -- Biophysical Options -- Do Nothing Option -- Part B: Climate Proofing Agriculture Investment Projects -- Overview -- Project Screening and Scoping -- Impact Assessment -- Vulnerability Assessment -- Adaptation Assessment -- Doing Away with Climate Projections? -- Implementation Arrangements -- Monitoring and Evaluation -- Part C: Building Adaptation Strategies into Policy and Sector Planning -- Implications for Policies and Planning -- National Policy Processes -- Sector Policies and Plans -- Mainstreaming Adaptation in Agriculture Sector Policies -- Conclusions -- References -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1 ADB Draft Risk Screening Tool (September 2009) -- Appendix 2 Draft Terms of Reference -- Appendix 3 Climate Downscaling and Projections Methods and Requirements -- Tables -- 1 Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture -- 2 Climate Risk Screening: Example of Screening Questions -- 3 Methods to Estimate Biophysical Impacts in Agriculture -- 4 Likelihood Scale Used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- 5 Indicators of Vulnerability and Measurement -- 6 Example of Criteria for Evaluating Adaptation Options -- 7 Example of Indicators for Measuring Adaptation Results in Agriculture Projects -- 8 Support for the National Action Plan on Climate Change Project: Summary of Sub-Basin Adaptation Action Plans -- 9 Management and Policy Options for Sector National-Level Actions -- Figures.

E1 Assessing Adaptation Needs and Options: 6 Sets of Activities -- E2 Assessing Adaptation Needs and Options: 6 Sets of Activities and 20 Steps -- 1 Selected Adaptation Options in Agriculture Sector Investments -- 2 Assessing Adaptation Needs and Options: 6 Sets of Activities -- 3 Assessing Adaptation Needs and Options: 6 Sets of Activities and 20 Steps -- 4 Project Screening and Scoping -- 5 Assessing Adaptation Needs and Options: A Web of Interaction -- 6 Impact Assessment -- 7 Vulnerability Assessment -- 8 Adaptation Assessment -- 9 Assessment of the Economic Benefits of Adaptation -- 10 Implementation Arrangements -- 11 Monitoring and Evaluation -- A1 Internationally Accepted List of Hazards -- Boxes -- 1 Sea Level Rise -- 2 Estimated Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Viet Nam -- 3 Food Security and Climate Change in the Pacific -- 4 Food Insecurity in Asia and the Pacific -- 5 Climate Change Adaptation through Groundwater Management in the People's Republic of China -- 6 Developing and Pilot Testing Climate-Resilient Crop Species in Bangladesh -- 7 Selected Adaptation Options -- 8 Adaptation Science -- 9 Selected Climate Change Risk Screening Tools -- 10 Risk Score Matrix in Bangladesh -- 11 Additional Resources for Scenario Development and Impact Assessments -- 12 Additional Resources on Community Participation -- 13 Additional Resources on Adaptation Learning -- 14 Robust Adaptation to Climate Change -- 15 Example of Project-Level Outcomes and Indicators in Agriculture -- 16 Applying a Climate Lens -- 17 Global Environment Facility-Funded Project: Adaptation Planning for Irrigated Agriculture in the People's Republic of China -- 18 Adaptation Recommendations in Irrigation -- 19 Near-Term Climate Proofing Actions -- 20 Improving the Resilience of the Agriculture Sector to Climate Change Impacts in Lao PDR.

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