Climate change poses challenges to agriculture, impacting water availability and weather patterns. This study, focuses on Senegal, and explores the link between climate change, cognitive load, and adaptation strategies and migration intentions among the rural population. Four interventions induced climate and financial load, a neutral control, and mechanical load. Preliminary results indicate that inducing climate load heightened climate-related worries, while financial load increased concerns related to finances. However, these effects did not reduce cognitive resources using incentivized measures. However, financial load led to an increase in finance-specific tunneling. Regarding adaptation strategies, financial load increased external migration intentions and reduced the probability of choosing investing in climate resilient agriculture within a budget allocation game. Climate load increased the number of mentioned adaptation strategies and the likelihood of stating future implementation. However, it also led to an increased allocation for not investing ina budget allocation game. The study contributes to understanding decision-making under cognitive strain, highlighting the impact on adaptation strategies and migration intentions in the face of climate change.