A Multi-Level Framework for Adaptation to Drought Within Temperate Agriculture

Droughts affect a range of economically important sectors but their impacts are usually most evident within agriculture. Agricultural not confined to arid and semi-arid regions, increasingly experienced in more temperate humid regions. A transferable drought management framework is needed transition from coping adapting through supporting improved planning policy decision-making the supply chain primary producers consumers. combination methodology using Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) approach, an analysis weekly agricultural trade publications semi-structured interviews were used explore responses, 2018 United Kingdom as case study. While reported responses on-farm, diverse measures implemented across institutional scales chain, reflecting complex interactions food system. However, dominated by reactive crisis-driven actions cope with, or enhance recovery from, drought; which contributed little increased resilience future droughts. Our shows how collaboration multi-sector engagement spatial, governance supply-chain develop human social capital can enable (short-term reactive) (long-term anticipatory) strategies increase