Climate impacts and agricultural resilience: The role of adaptive technology accumulation in mitigating land productivity

Climate impacts and agricultural resilience: The role of adaptive technology accumulation in mitigating land productivity | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article Climate impacts and agricultural resilience: The role of adaptive technology accumulation in mitigating land productivity Yongxiang Zhang, Yueying Mu, Guogang Wang, Yingjun Qi This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8171344/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Under Review Version 1 posted 4 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract This study examines how the accumulation and joint use of adaptive technologies strengthen agricultural resilience to climate change. Using farm survey data matched with long term weather records from China’s two major grain producing regions, we distinguish portfolios of land and water management practices and quantify their effects on crop yields under extreme climate shocks. Technological accumulation substantially mitigates yield losses: a one unit increase in accumulated land management technologies reduces output losses by up to 43.16% under extreme high temperature and 90.38% under extreme low temperature shocks, while accumulated water management technologies offset about 28.90% of the losses from extreme heat. The combined adoption of land and water management technologies further reduces output losses from extreme high temperatures by roughly 43.00%, indicating strong complementarities between technology families. These results highlight the importance of policies and extension strategies that promote diversified portfolios and sustained accumulation of adaptive technologies to stabilize land productivity and support climate resilient agricultural development. Adaptive technologies climate shocks resilience technology accumulation land management synergy Full Text Supplementary Files SupplementaryMaterial.docx Cite Share Download PDF Status: Under Review Version 1 posted Reviewers agreed at journal 08 Dec, 2025 Reviewers invited by journal 08 Dec, 2025 Editor assigned by journal 24 Nov, 2025 First submitted to journal 22 Nov, 2025 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. 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