Climate Change And Agriculture On Indi Impacts And Adaptation For Sustainable Future

Beyond the implications for the climate system and the consequent environmental costs associated with such activities, anthropogenic climate change generates immense impacts on the development of human societies: livelihoods are greatly affected, food security is threatened, health and sanitation conditions decline, biodiversity and ecosystem services are lost, fresh water availability declines, agricultural activities are affected and the social wellbeing of billions of people around the world is at risk (IPCC 2014).

In the words of Barack Obama, “climate change is no longer some far-off problem; it is happening here, it is happening now.” (J. S. World Economic Forum, 2015) This global phenomenon is causing many problems around the world and is affecting both developed countries like Canada and other countries in the process of developing. This report investigates how climate change can pose significant impacts on all countries despite economic stability. Places like Canada are affected by the severe storms and drastic changes in weather and these changes can hurt the environment and the economy. They can also pose threats to crop production and public health. Climate change can also hurt the developmental progression of low-income countries

The subjects of Agriculture and Rural Development, including Natural Resource Economics, will enable me to empirically assess patterns that nest within it like; the relationship between climate change and food insecurity in marginalized communities: The case of semi-arid areas in Malawi. Through this plan, I will be able to answer questions on the nexus between food security, water use and energy security, as well as the indicators of climate change in Malawi. The correlation between climate change, the levels of food insecurity in Malawi and rural development, will also be accorded an investigation

Climate change looms large over our rapidly growing and continually changing world. No longer are the adverse effects of this menacing global issue a mere ominous projections, they are starting to become a very concrete reality. Countries are today experiencing rising sea levels, which compromises coastal infrastructure, prolonged drought, squeezing food supply and agricultural productivity, as well as extreme storms. Rising temperatures have already led to vast reductions in the size of the Arctic. There is now no doubt amongst scientists that anthropogenic activity has been the primary catalyst to the

Agriculture is highly dependent upon weather and climate in order to produce the food necessary to sustain human life. North America is the world’s largest and most productive supplier of food and fiber (3). Canada is the second largest country in the world however it only contains five percent of land that is suitable for farming (7). This small farming area is divided in two different zones. The first zone is the great Prairies located in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and the mixed Wood Plains of the St. Lawrence River and the second zone is the Great Lakes regions (7). Approximately 80% of Canada’s major farming is done the Prairies (7). There have been several recent studies that indicate most regions of Canada to warm up during the next 60 years (3). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 projected that global average temperature to increase by 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius (3). Ironically, this would be the largest increase in global mean temperature in the last 10, 000 years (3). According to the comprehensive Canada Country Study (CCS) all the Global Climate Model (GCM) indicates Canada will be impacted with the most warming (7). The impacts of this climate change will be greatly reflected on the

climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is undisputedly clear that human are partly responsible for global warming through deforestation burning fossil fuels and other changes we have caused to the land. There has not only been a significant increase in temperature across the globe but the seal level has rose 20cm in the past century alone. the (Intergovernmental panel of climate change, IPCC) has also tracked the “unprecedented recent rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases since the beginning of the industrial revolution.” It is alarming that the emissions of greenhouse gas continue to rise globally and it is deeply concerning that all countries, particularly developing countries, are vulnerable

Mertz et al. (2009b), assert that the communities most susceptible to climate change impacts will be those who practice subsistence agriculture and are characterized by economic poverty. Subsistence farmers face a number of challenges such as limited access to productive land and lack of access to markets amongst other things, consequently making them more vulnerable to climate change impacts (Makhura, 2001). However, on closer analysis it appears that female subsistence farmers in developing countries are expected to face the greatest impacts of climate change (Terry, 2009). Men and women have different roles within their households and communities, yet in spite of this, their roles are complementary (Bless, 2005; Oberhauser et al., 2004), the difference in roles leads to dissimilar often conflicting basic needs, preferences, livelihood strategies and goals (Okali, 2006). Denton (2002) notes that adaptive capacity and susceptibility to climate change impacts differs between male and female farmers especially in developing countries. According to United Nations-UN (2008) climate change

Evidence of Climate Change is being felt around the world. The most vulnerable areas are the least developed, which lack public instruments and infrastructure to adapt to the extreme effects of climate. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is vital to slow the progress of climate change, however, adapting to the consequences of this intensified climate crisis by the human being itself is key. Some countries understand it, others just cannot do too much about it. New evidence shows that Climate Change has affected many sectors in Asia. Crop yields in several countries have declined, due in part to increased temperature and external weather events. The retreat of glaciers and permafrost in Asia in recent years has no precedent and is a consequence

The purpose of this report is to summarize the main implications of climate change on Australian agricultural farmers, enable further knowledge and to propose appropriate action plans.

Climate change is the single biggest environmental and humanitarian crisis of our time. Our Earth’s temperature is climbing at an alarming rate. Earth 's average temperature has risen by 1.4°F over the past century, and is projected to rise another 2 to 11.5°F over the next hundred years. The planet is seeing the devastating effects of a warmer earth; warmer oceans, melting ice caps, and rising sea levels. As these and other changes become more pronounced in the coming decades, they will likely present challenges to our society and our environment.

Climate change is a global problem that is affecting Earth’s delicate ecosystem. Many problems are present in our world today, such as starvation, flooding, heat waves, droughts and disease. These issues are likely to worsen as climate change takes its toll. In the past, the cause of this severe climate change was unknown. Today, it is known that manmade climate change is occurring. Scientists have discovered that humans have had the greatest impact on the Earth’s ecosystem. Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, are causing the Earth to get hotter. Although humans are not the only cause of climate change, we contribute to this world wide problem because of the actions we take, which if affecting us now and will continue to affect us in the future.

There is no doubt that climate is a considerable element of agricultural production. However, along with climate change, extreme weather has tended to be more frequent and more intense, which has affected farming destructively. As a result, the drought that occurred in sub-Saharan Africa has become continual and long duration, which resulted in poor harvests. In addition, climate change restricted weather risk management. Similarly, long-time climate change is threatening agricultural development in Australia and has reduced agricultural production capacity and challenged traditional farming and irrigation measures. Interestingly, in most rural areas of Australia, farmers acknowledged “a changing climate”, rather than “climate change”.

The United Nations predicts that the population will go up by at least two billion people by the year 2050. Eighty percent of this new population will be in sub-Saharan Africa and in South and Southeast Asia. These are the areas where climate change will be the most felt. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that the world’s food supply is in trouble because there has been crop yield drop for corn, wheat, and rice. There are also some places the crops have stopped growing altogether. Climate change’s biggest threat could be on the world’s food supply. Something must happen should to help this issue at hand. This is where the debate of modern technology, such as genetically modified crop, should be used to help the oncoming food dilemma.

Earth’s climate is on a downward spiral, and our agricultural industry is a main cause. Climate change is upon us, and it’s happening faster than scientists predicted over a decade ago (Pollan 872). Most People don’t care about climate change; things have gotten worse than what the models have predicted, despite being what the data predicts the outcome will be. Agriculture is a major part of climate change, and it’s already happening today such as droughts, flooding, erratic weather shifting, and longer growing seasons (Lappé 854). The massive demand on agriculture, and its growth directly contributes to climate change, and our insatiable appetite is to blame. The dilemma with climate change, is that the sum of every little every day choice that we make that affects our environment, because we are 70 percent of the economy that affects the climate (Pollan 872). The only probable solution to our dilemma is to start making better decisions, and to be conscious of our environment. A key decision we could make to

There are many scholars with different viewpoints in climate change adaptation {Adger, 2009 #299;IPCC., 2008 #293;O’Brien, 2012 #290;Pelling, 2011 #292}. Therefore, scoping the definition and magnitude of climate change adaptation will provide the right track to analyse the surrounding matters of adaptation interventions.