Asia

Any changes occurred in climatic conditions affecting rainfall patterns will have an adverse impact on agriculture eventually affecting the economic well-being of the people. As weather pattern changes, the economy of farmers, which depends on traditional subsistence-based agriculture, become more vulnerable and difficult.

The Eastern Himalaya region is characterized by a diversity of farming practices that have been developed and nurtured through many generations. Micro climatic conditions and variations in ecological systems within the Himalayas have generated very specific practices suitable for each specific zone. It is highly likely that each of these specific practices is responding to climatic changes in different ways. We shortlisted four unique traditional agricultural practices to analyze perceptions of communities practicing these in relation to their experience with climate change.

Globally, climate change is great challenge to us. It's been challenging to poor and vulnerable countries. The situation of Nepal, this year, rainfall has not been timely. It has been late because of which farmers have no planted paddy and vegetable on time. Most of land have not used. The impact of the climate change, diseases has increased, so that it's great challenge to control diarrhea in Rukum district in Nepal.

It has been observed from the experience of rural women, the average chicks hatching duration was 21 days in olden days. These days it is noted that the average hatching period has reduced to 18 -16 days if hatching in thesummer period.

In the river bed of Cauvery , velvet ( flies ) insects found in lakhs at nights prior to the monsoon seasons. There is no monsoon and hence no velvet flies ( insects found .

This summer the Himachal Pradesh had experienced high levels of temperatures than ever before. The Himachal Pradesh is known for summer resorts and the state remains cool in summers. But the rainfall pattern, temperature levels, humidity and other flora and fauna has been under going unexpected changes which are not good for the globe.

The need of the hour is to combat on war foot and the intervention of NGOs like us is needed to protect the environment further.

SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT SAVE THE GLOBE
Regards.
Narasimham

Abstract: Long time ago, Lat Ngone village had abundant water resources and forest. There are a lot of big trees and the climate was also regular change. Now water as well as climate are a lot different if compared to the past. Every year villagers have suffered seriously from climate change, some time we have floods and some time drought, it is irregular climate changed. Last year (2008), we had suffered from drought, around 2 ha of rice production area could not harvest.

The unfavorable consequence of global warming and climate change is exerting tremendous pressure on the global environment as well as Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, three storms, four floods, one tsunami, and two cyclones killed more than 400,000 people and affected another 42 million people between 1990 and 1998. The possible physical effects from global warming and climate change causes such threats to Bangladesh as damage to coastal infrastructure that could reach, as much as 12% of GDP by the year 2010.

Abstract: Climate change will have a massive impact on food production and may jeopardize food security in many regions. Food Security is an integrated part of Food Sovereignty. Climate change will also influence the availability of water for human consumption and for food production. All the previous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) impact assessments recognized Bangladesh as one of the most susceptible to the negative impacts of climate change.