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USAID Mekong ARCC Project finalized its Climate Change Impact and Adaptation Study for the Lower Mekong Basin. The study, undertaken by a team of more than 20 international and national scientists and researchers and peer reviewed by experts from globally respected research organizations, details  anticipated changes to the climate regime of the Lower Mekong Basin and how these will impact key livelihood sectors, including agriculture, capture fisheries and aquaculture, livestock, and natural systems. The study concludes that the Lower Mekong Basin will experience more extremes – wetter wet seasons, drier dry seasons, higher temperatures, more frequent and extreme flood events – and that these changes will stress traditional agricultural and natural systems in the basin, rendering unsuitable land once thought ideal for certain crops and shifting traditional ecosystems upland.