This brief by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) acknowledges that climate, water and agriculture are the three important factors that are facing severe crisis in recent years and argues that it is necessary to recognise that these three factors cannot be viewed in isolation, but as converging, interdependent and interconnected factors.

The convergence of these three factors means that solutions to the crisis cannot be found in isolation, but need to be complementary, that move away from dominant industrial agricultural models, to models that are sustainable and just.

The brief argues that climate change adaptation strategies that address future agriculture-based climate change mitigation should thus recognise this interconnectedness and not only include technical assessments, but also include water efficiency assessments, a larger ecosystem impact assessment and a wider set of socioeconomic impact assessments that address the rights to basic needs such as food and water and access issues amongthepoor and vulnerable such as women and children.

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