Climate change means a change in climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods. Climate change is important for number of reasons. Ecosystems, human health and economy are all sensitive to changes in climate including both the magnitude and rate of climate change. It is particularly important to remember that as a problem climate change does not exist in isolation (UNFCCC, 1992).
The debate on climate change has begun to take into account issues related to human response or adaptation (Smithers and Smit 1997) and the present agenda for research on climate change is still not
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Climate is one of them. With new understanding that climate change is real, happening and inevitable, the complexities involved in farming have become manifold. In those countries where majority’s livelihoods are intertwined with farming pursuits, the challenges in agriculture would seriously threaten livelihood: push them to face more unpredictable situations. The effect of rising temperature and more unpredictable rainfall patterns are going to test the informed decisions farmers have to make in order to survive in farming and sustain their living. Contribution of chemical fertilizer and pesticide industries to climate change is well known (Leis, 2008).
Food is and will remain at the centre of this unfolding climate crisis. Everyone agrees that agricultural production has to continue to rise significantly over coming decades to feed the growing population. Climate change however is likely to put agricultural production into reverse. Impact of global warming on agriculture is estimated that in future climate change will reduce the potential output of global agriculture by more than 3.2 percent as compared to today (William R. Cline,
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Country has faced severe floods in the recent and previous years which dented the slowly building economy and already struggling agriculture. World Bank has reported climate change impacts on Pakistan which are depicted in given table.
Data given in Table 1 clearly narrates how severely climate change and its consequential activities have damaged country, both in the form of losses in human assets and financial assets during particular period.
Keeping all this in view, proposed research is designed to assess the social and agro-economic resilience in farming community in regards to adaptation of climate change. Study primarily focuses on the responses of farmers regarding impact of climate change on their agro-economic life.
Objectives of the study:
Objectives of the study will be:
• To identify demographic characteristics of the respondents
• To find out awareness level of farmers regarding climate change
• To check impact of climate change on farming activities of the farmers
• To assess impact of climate change on economic life of farming community
• To develop suggestions for all stakeholders
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