Climate Change assessments are reliable enough and hence their results could support decision-making. Particularly, simulations obtained through General Circulation models (GCM), considering several emission scenarios of greenhouse gases, predict a reinforcement of drought conditions in the Mediterranean. Less water will be available due to climate change, which would bring significant risks especially to the Mediterranean irrigated agriculture. Unfortunately, despite that Climate Change and its expected effects appear frequently in media, farmers, irrigators and people related to irrigation do not know how to deal with it.

There are techniques able to produce relatively reliable climate scenarios to a region. There are also simulation models able to estimate crop water requirements and to suggest the irrigation managements best adapted to the expected climate scenarios. Nevertheless, these simulation tools have not been significantly used to support decision-making up to now, basically because the interested people are not aware about them. On the other hand, researchers are not very aware about the daily problems of farmers and irrigators. Therefore, researchers must show their results in a simply way to farmers, while farmers must indicate to researchers what they need. CLIRMED is aimed to create such communication links between farmers and researchers.

The CLIRMED workshop was divided in four sections. General irrigation issues in the Mediterranean were shown in the first. The second section was dedicated to climate scenarios and irrigation-oriented simulations tools. The European, Spanish and the regional Castilian policies regarding irrigation were discussed in the third section. Finally, CLIRMED comprised a round table where farmers, politicians and scientists talked about a single issue: How to mitigate climate change effects on the Mediterranean irrigated agriculture?.

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