Climate resilience

Manage the challenges of a changing climate and plan for the longer term to build business resilience.

The UK is experiencing a changing climate, less predictable seasons and more frequent and intense weather events, and farming has increasingly seen this first hand in recent years.

Adapting to these challenges and anticipating and dealing with future impacts, alongside other management planning, will contribute to business resilience, and there may also be opportunities. Below are AHDB resources spanning a number of management areas that may require more attention with a changing climate, in terms of both threats and opportunities.

The climate risks, impacts, consequences, opportunities and actions were described in AHDB's Climate Change Adaptation Report 2025 that was submitted as as part of the Adaptation Reporting Power programme round 4.

Prepare, respond and recover more rapidly from sudden disruptions that could arise from unpredictable seasons and extreme weather events.

Tools to help with budgeting and forecasting to provide resilience in times of volatility.

Protect your soils and improve their resilience whatever the weather or climate challenge.

Plan, prepare and optimise water resources in the face of changing weather patterns.

Protect farm buildings and optimise their use in the face of chanigng weather and climate.

Select the most appropriate crop and grass varieties for performance in less predictable seasons and other challenges in changing climate.

An intetegrated pest management (IPM) approach helps deal with the threats and opportunities of a changing climate.

Prepare for animal health and welfare challenges in a changing climate.

Understand how breeding opportunities can promote climate resilience.

Agroforestry deliberately integrates trees and shrubs on the same piece of land as farming activity to benefit the business and the environment.

Useful tools, such as those that look at the risk from pests and disease and those that optimise inputs and farm assets, can help overcome the challenges of a changing climate.

Reuducing the emissions on farm can have environmental, productivity and financial benefits.

The Roots to Resilience programme supports farmers to plan for the future in a rapidly changing world.