Designing policies that can adapt to a world of uncertainty, change, and surprise: adaptive policymaking for agriculture and water resources

The objective of this project is to advance the emerging concept of adaptive policy-making and thereby contribute to building the adaptive capacity and resilience of communities to climate change. Adaptive policies are considered as those that are robust across a variety of possible futures (rather than optimized for a specific future) and have the ability to adapt to circumstances as they emerge over time. The project will explore through a case study approach, the characteristics and mechanisms of policy instruments that can adapt to surprises and longer-term changes in the context of agriculture-water resource development and climate change.