Climate Change and Its Impact on Agriculture

The climate change is overall change, which has taken place in global climate pattern due to increase of carbon dioxide in many folds. Whether it is responsibility of individual or the government to control the climate change has become a moot point for many years. Proponents and opponents of both the views have their own strong arguments. Before coming to an end, I would like to light on both the views in my imminent paragraphs.

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).

Today’s world is facing many challenges given the growing concerns and current repercussions of environmental climate change and demands of a growing global population. Not only is climate change effecting the worlds ecosystems, human health and fresh water resources, it is drastically effecting the worlds agriculture. Unpredictable weather such, as rising temperatures, colder temperatures, excessive flooding, and droughts are just a few of the increasing weather instabilities, which are challenging and threatening today’s agriculture growth and production. As such, crop yields continue to decline and present a risk to future food security. As a world, we are facing an adaptation deficit leaving us very vulnerable and thus, we must seek to

There are many adaptation strategies for farmers to meet the growing challenge of climate change, such as breed and seed selection, water conservation and adjusting the timing of farming operations. These adaptations along with investment in agricultural production are required to maintain and enhance global food security.

2. Climate has a considerable impact on agricultural production. However, along with climate change, extreme weather tends to be more frequent and more intense that destructively affects framing. To diminish the effects of climate change, farmers in Australia take climate change adaptations; while in sub-Saharan Africa, climate information and early warning system are used, and farmers diversify their livelihoods and cropping practices that are less sensitive to climate.

The UNFCC also defines climate change as “a change of 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 time periods.”

One of the biggest problems in society due to the issue of climate change is the reduction and loss of crops and livestock, which can be

Food security is affected by our warming climate. Increase in carbon dioxide, warmer climate, negatively affects crop production and reduced yields a crop staples. Low food productions can easily lead to food insecurity in the future. Earth’s current state of human induced warming, ocean acidification, and changes in frequency and intensity of climate related factors will make many areas that already has low food production at an increased likelihood of food insecurity. A necessary adaptation to maintain or even increase food production will be to improve personal and agriculture water management and land management. Food security will continue to be dependent on the prices of internationally traded food

te change is a major threat throughout the entire world. With the excess carbon dioxide found in the atmosphere and the rising temperature this has caused the weather to be unpredictable. These factors all impact how we manage to get food on our plate. Farmers all over the world are facing the impacts of climate change and how their crops grow; especially in Western Australia and Southern China.

Climate variability and change profoundly influence social and natural environments throughout the world, with consequent impacts on natural resources and industry that could be large and far-reaching. Climate change due to global warming not only started to impact the weather pattern but also influence the agriculture sector in Pakistan. Pakistan is an agriculture whose majority of the population depends upon agriculture. Glaciers are the big fresh water sources for Pakistan which fulfills the water demands in the agriculture land while rainfall fulfills the water requirement of the barani areas. An increase in temperature was observed in the country especially during the last few decades which accelerate snow melting on glaciers. The increased rate of glacial melting in Himalayas has caused vast lakes to develop, and if these lacks outburst, these can inundate towns and villages below. There is high level of confidence that recent regional changes (rising tendency) in temperature have discernable impacts on precipitation, evaporation, stream flow, runoff and other elements of hydrological cycles (Elshamy et al., 2006).

These days, scientific-technology and agricultural technology have been developed. However, in spite of this advancement, weather and climate change has influence on many facets of agriculture on bad side. It can cause the instability of agricultural supply and demand due to frequent unusual weather, the new disease and insect pest and prevalence of weed grasses. On this wise, climate change in agriculture causes great damage.

India is in the monsoon zone. Monsoons drastically affected the way in which the agriculture system worked. The monsoon are created by the direction the wind is moving which would bring in heavy raining. The farmers learned how to crop at certain times of the year, trying to use the

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

Climate change has the potential to transform food production, especially the patterns and productivity of crops, livestock, and fishery systems; and to reconfigure food distribution, markets, and access (Nelson et al., 2009). Chen et al. (2012) observed that climate change has already had a negative impact on Asia through extreme temperatures, frequent flooding and droughts, sea level rise, and increased salinity of water supplies for rainfed agricultural areas. Most Asian countries are quite dependent on their domestic supplies of rice. The International Rice Commission (2003) indicates that Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam are the major producers of rice, producing more than 70% of the world’s volume. The Asian rice-producing countries tend to consume most of their domestic rice production. Nevertheless, Thailand and Vietnam are able to export some rice to neighboring countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Dasgupta et al. (2009) identified ten developing countries whose land areas are most exposed to the potential threat of a one-meter rise in sea level. Among the countries most affected by sea level rise are Bangladesh, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam and these are all rice-growing and rice-consuming countries. Using a partial equilibrium global rice trade model, Chen et al. (2012) investigated the potential impact of sea level rise combined with climate-induced crop yield change on global rice

Drought is another factor of climate change that causes severe damages to agriculture and livestock. The effects of drought on agricultural production and livestock holding can be a detrimental issue and result in quality dissatisfaction of products. The agricultural industry can be affected by drought both economically and environmentally. The economical effects of drought on crops and animals can lead to the loss of money and time. When droughts occur farmers lose money because they will have to spend more money earned from their