The impacts of climate change on the people who serving the natural resources as a livelihood is particularly significant. To define the adaptation demands of farmers to climate change is very important to develop effectively adaptation policies for climate change, and to enhance the farmers' adaptability to climate change. This paper, based on 500 questionnaires, analysis of the adaptation demands of the different regions and different livelihood strategies of farmers in Gannan plateau, and the key factors of affecting the adaptation demands of the farmers by using the two logistic regression model. The results show that:(1) In the process of adaptation to climate change, the infrastructure demands of farmers in Gannan plateau is the most intense, and secondly are both of the demands of information and production technology. (2) There are different demands in adaptation to climate change in different regions, of which, both of the demands of the farmers of pastoral area and farming district for infrastructure are the strongest, and the demands of agricultural-pastoral area for information is the most intense. (3) Different livelihood strategies of farmers to climate change have different demands, of which, the demands of typeⅠhouseholds(with less than 10% of their income from non-farm) for credit insurance is the most intense, the demands of type Ⅱ households (with 10% to 50% of their income from non-farm) and type Ⅲ(with more than 50% of their income from non-farm) households for infrastructure are the most strong; (4) In addition, the natural capital and the physical capital are the key factors that affect farmers' demands for the production technology, the natural capital and the human capital are the key factors that influence farmers' demands for information, the human capital and the financial capital are the key factors that impact farmers' demands for infrastructure, and the natural capital, human capital, financial capital, material capital and the social capital are the key factors that affecting farmers' demands for credit insurance. Finally, the policy suggestions to improve the farmers' adaptation to climate change are proposed.