(Changes in) adaptation strategies to climate changes: Multiple cropping

Abstract

Under agriculture as key areas for adaptation to climate change in China, one issue was explicitly to promote adjustment of agricultural structure and cropping systems. It was proposed to extend the planting areas of economic and forage crops, and promote the shift of the structure of cropping systems from a dual structure with food crop and cash crop to a ternary structure with food crop, cash crop and forage crop. This way cropping systems were adjusted, developing multiple cropping and raising multiple cropping indexes. Furthermore, all walks of life of the society would be fully employed to disseminate China's efforts and policies for response to climate change and to promote public awareness of climate change (Pan 2007). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.