Development of adaptation options to CC was part of the orig-inal objectives of the study. However, given the generally positiveimpact of CC on wheat productivity in Central Asia, there remainslittle to be argued about adaptation needs for farmers.The above-said is only valid for a future in which irrigation wateravailability (snowfall/melt in the mountains) does not substantiallydecrease. Our simulations did not cover such scenarios given thefact that the GCMs on average rather predicted slightly increasingrather than decreasing precipitations under CC. Therefore, it seemsvery much required to couple crop modeling of irrigated crop pro-duction in Central Asia with hydrological/climatological estimatesof snowfall and