the analysis is by no means an attempt to provide a full picture of adaptation costs for the agricultural sector instead it aims to provide an estimate of the orders of magnitude of the potential expenditures that would be needed to support some adaptation measures the purpose is also to complement the cost estimates provided by the world bank in its economics of adaptation to climate change eacc study where the costs of adaptation in agriculture were calculated for developing countries nelson et al based on the same methodology this report presents the projected adaptation costs in agriculture for oecd countries