My talk at the AAAS 2014. In the talk I provide a critique of the current framing of climate adaptation in the plant science, which is too narrowly focused on abiotic stress. I then provide reflections about how climate change should be addressed through vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning.

1. Design of Participatory Crop Improvement Programs
and Future Climates
Jacob van Etten
Bioversity International (CGIAR)
@jacobvanetten

2. Climate change
Origin of
agriculture

3. My talk

4. Crop breeding and climate change

5. Some trends

6. Frameworks

7. Stability

8. Mega-environments

9. Specific adaptation
Annicchiarico et al.

10. Environmental analysis lacking

11. The model

12. Current state of the art

13. Cutting through the complexity

14. The wrong approach

15. Scenarios

16. Livelihoods

17. Citizen science

18. Environmental characterization

19. Example results

20. In summary
Models + experiments + observations
Abiotic stress  integrated vulnerability analysis
Characterizing selection environments
Stakeholder deliberation, farmer participation
Working backwards – where do we want to be?