Roughly 70% of São Paulo's territory is dedicated to agriculture, which has suffered increasing threats from climate change, especially through prolonged droughts and increasing instability. Agronomic adaptions and investments in new technologies have been the main strategy to mitigate the impacts of climate change. The paper recently published by Alexandre Gori Maia, Bruno Miyamoto and Junior Garcia at the journal Ecological Economics highlights how the benefits of adaptation may differ substantially according to the provision of ecosystem services. In other words, technologies may be necessary but not sufficient to mitigate the impacts of climate change on agricultural development. This is particularly true because degraded areas can disrupt important ecosystem services, such as the surface water balance, compromising the adoption of irrigation systems.