Effects Of Climate Change On Agriculture In The Outskirts Of Kathmandu Valley

Author : Santosh Budhathoki
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783346122933

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Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture in the outskirts of Kathmandu Valley by Santosh Budhathoki Pdf

Master's Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Environmental Sciences, grade: A, , course: Environment Science, language: English, abstract: The study focused on the observation of the effects of global warming and climate change on agriculture in the outskirts of Kathmandu valley. The objectives of the study were to identify the effects of climate change on agriculture in the surrounding hills of Kathmandu valley. The specific objectives of the study are: To study the effects of climate change on crop production in the research area. To find out shift of agricultural pattern in the research area. To suggest some mitigation and adaptation measures in the study area. Nepal is one among the highest risk of climate change. It is divided into Mountain, Hill and Terai. It is divided into different land topography so enjoys wide range of climatic conditions form arid alpine to humid tropical climate. The average rise in temperature of Nepal is 0.06o C every year. The rate of increment is more in Himalayas than in Terai. Due to this, almost all the aspects of human life are affected one or the other ways. One of the mostly affected aspects is agriculture which is the major profession of Nepal. Nepal is an agriculture-based country where more than 65% of the population engages in agriculture for livelihood and agriculture shares about 33% of its GDP at current price and 35% at 2000/2001 constant price. The study dealt about the implications of climate change in the outskirts of Kathmandu valley. The study was completed in Purano Naikap area which is one of the topographic representatives of the foothills of Kathmandu valley. Many cases of adverse effects of climate change were found in the study area such as untimely rain, infestation of alien grass species, infection of viral disease in tomato and paddy plants, invasion of different harmful insects like GabaroKiraand Green Caterpillar. The fields were left barren due to drought in the lands where it used to be wetland throughout the year. There is lack of irrigation facilities and lack of manpower for agriculture.

Author : Bartlett, R.,Bharati, Luna,Pant, Dhruba,Hosterman, H.,McCornick, P. G.
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789290907329

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Climate change impacts and adaptation in Nepal by Bartlett, R.,Bharati, Luna,Pant, Dhruba,Hosterman, H.,McCornick, P. G. Pdf

The impact of climate change (CC) on water resources is likely to affect agricultural systems and food security. This is especially true for Nepal, a least developed country, where a high percentage of the population is dependent on agriculture for its livelihoods. It is thus crucial for Nepal’s leaders and resource managers to draft and begin implementing national adaptation plans. This working paper aims to create a more comprehensive understanding of how the impacts of CC will be realized at different scales in Nepal, from household livelihoods to national food security, and the many institutions governing the ultimate adaptation process.

Author : Prakash K. Karn,South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9937596157

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The Impact of Climate Change on Rice Production in Nepal by Prakash K. Karn,South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics Pdf

Author : Keshav Lall Maharjan,Niraj Prakash Joshi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9784431543435

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Climate Change, Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods in Developing Countries by Keshav Lall Maharjan,Niraj Prakash Joshi Pdf

This book is about climate change and its relation to agriculture and rural livelihoods. It starts by providing a basic understanding of climate change science followed by the relation of climate change to agriculture, the impact of which is discussed based on the particular impact of climate change on plant and animal physiology. The book further discusses the inclusion of the agriculture sector in various international climate change negotiations. It also reviews the cost and opportunities for agricultural projects through international climate change regimes, specifically the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol. With this background, the book finally proceeds to an explanation of the methodologies used to assess the impact of climate change on agriculture and empirically discusses its impact on agriculture and rural livelihoods in Nepal.

Author : Selvaraju Ramasamy,Krishna Raj Regmi
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9251081336

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Managing Climate Risks and Adapting to Climate Change in the Agriculture Sector in Nepal by Selvaraju Ramasamy,Krishna Raj Regmi Pdf

This report provides detailed information about climate and its variability in Nepal, including past trends, future climate change projections and likely impacts on the agriculture sector. The report elaborates the institutional context for managing climate risks and adaptation and reiterates the need to strengthen the collection and analysis of data and information. A comprehensive typology of coping and adaptation strategies for managing current climate risks and building the necessary knowledge and good practices for advancing adaptation over the longer term is presented. The report also examines the issues and opportunities for mainstreaming climate change concerns into broader agriculture and food security policies, plans and strategies.

Author : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / Working Group Technical Support Unit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9291691232

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Climate Change and Water by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / Working Group Technical Support Unit Pdf

The Technical Paper addresses the issue of freshwater. Sealevel rise is dealt with only insofar as it can lead to impacts on freshwater in coastal areas and beyond. Climate, freshwater, biophysical and socio-economic systems are interconnected in complex ways. Hence, a change in any one of these can induce a change in any other. Freshwater-related issues are critical in determining key regional and sectoral vulnerabilities. Therefore, the relationship between climate change and freshwater resources is of primary concern to human society and also has implications for all living species. -- page vii.

Author : Vishal Narain,Dik Roth
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030790356

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Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia by Vishal Narain,Dik Roth Pdf

This open access book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka and Khulna in Bangladesh, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune in India, and Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The book looks into specifically peri-urban water security issues in a context of rapid urbanization and social-environmental changes, including the changing climate and its emerging impacts. It demonstrates how urbanization processes change water flows between rural and urban areas, the implications of this processes for the water security of peri-urban populations, and how new institutions and technologies develop to mediate the relationships between peri-urban communities and water. The book seeks to further the debate on peri-urban water security, including what constitutes the peri-urban, socially differentiated access to water in peri-urban spaces, interventions for improving water access, and emerging forms of cooperation and conflict related to water access in a context of urbanization and climate change. As such, this book is an interesting read for academics with various disciplinary backgrounds, professionals working in the worlds of national and international policy, NGOs, activist groups, research and development institutes, and individual readers interested in water security and urbanization.

Author : Golam Kibria
Publisher : New India Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : 938145051X

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Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production by Golam Kibria Pdf

The book 'Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production: Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Remedies' provides an overview of climate change impacts on all agricultural food producing sectors (agriculture, livestock and fisheries), food contamination, and food safety (microbial pathogens, toxic biological & toxic chemical contaminants), food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation measures to counteract or minimise or reduce the effects of climate change on agriculture, livestock and fisheries. It reviews and summarizes research results, data and information from the world including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Polar Regions and Small Island Nations. The book has been structured as textbook, reference book and extension book and written in simple and plain English with key facts and acronyms and glossary provided in each with tables and figures to benefit a wide range of readeThe key data and information provided in each are highlighted below:

Author : Richard Grimmett,Carol Inskipp,Tim Inskipp,Hem Sagar Baral
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472905727

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Birds of Nepal by Richard Grimmett,Carol Inskipp,Tim Inskipp,Hem Sagar Baral Pdf

This fully updated edition of Birds of Nepal is the most comprehensive guide to the birds of this beautiful Himalayan country. The texts have been completely re-written for this edition and many of the illustrations have been replaced. In addition, maps have been included for the first time. Every species recorded in Nepal is covered, including vagrants, with accurate distribution maps for most species. 142 colour plates are featured, illustrating more than 790 species with text on facing pages for quick and easy reference. The comprehensive text covers identification, voice, habits, habitats, altitudinal range, distribution and status.

Author : Richard Grimmett,Carol Inskipp,Tim Inskipp,Hem Sagar Baral
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781472983190

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Birds of Nepal by Richard Grimmett,Carol Inskipp,Tim Inskipp,Hem Sagar Baral Pdf

This fully updated edition of Birds of Nepal is the most comprehensive guide to the birds of this beautiful Himalayan country. Every species of bird recorded in Nepal is covered in this fantastic guide, including vagrants, with accurate distribution maps for most species. More than 790 species are featured with illustrations and concise text covering essential information for quick and easy reference. The comprehensive text covers voice, habits, habitats, altitudinal range, distribution and status to aid accurate identification. The texts have been completely re-written for this edition and many of the illustrations have been replaced. In addition, maps have been included for the first time.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9251044708

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Two Essays on Climate Change and Agriculture by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Agriculture and climate changes are closely linked. Agriculture has a significant impact on the process of climate change. There is uncertainty surrounding the implications of climate change for agricultural production. This document consists of two studies on this relationship. The first study provides an analysis of the various methodologies that have been used to measure the potential impacts of climate change on agricultural production and makes suggestions for further research. The second study is on the impact of agriculture on climate. It gives a detailed analysis of the potential for implementing the Clean Development Mechanism proposed under the Kyoto Protocol Convention on Climate Change in the agricultural sector of developing countries along with the relevant policy implications and requirements

Author : Jagadish Timsina,Tek N. Maraseni,Devendra Gauchan,Jagannath Adhikari,Hemant Ojha
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031095559

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Agriculture, Natural Resources and Food Security by Jagadish Timsina,Tek N. Maraseni,Devendra Gauchan,Jagannath Adhikari,Hemant Ojha Pdf

This book explains how a former net food exporting Nepal has become a net food importing country due to a lack of an integrated system-wide approach to planning and governance of agriculture and natural resources. It demonstrates how various components of the food system, such as agronomy, agrobiodiversity, plant health, post-harvest management, livestock and fisheries, and socio-economics including marketing and trade, have been managed in sectoral silos, crippling the very foundations of food systems innovations. The book also explores ways to tackle climate change impacts while considering gender, social equity, conservation agriculture practices, and crop modeling as cross-cutting themes. This book utilizes Nepal as a case study in relation to wider questions of food security and livelihoods facing South Asia and synthesizes lessons that are relevant to the Global South where countries are struggling to harmonize and integrate natural resources management for sustainable and effective food security outcomes. As such, it significantly contributes to the knowledge toward achieving various United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Author : Rob D. van den Berg,Osvaldo N. Feinstein
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781412815338

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Evaluating Climate Change and Development by Rob D. van den Berg,Osvaldo N. Feinstein Pdf

Climate change has become one of the most important global issues of our time, with far-reaching natural, socio-economic, and political effects. To address climate change and development issues from the perspective of evaluation, an international conference was held in Alexandria, Egypt. This book distills the essence of that timely conference, building on the experiences of more than 400 reports and studies presented. Developing countries may be particularly vulnerable to the expected onslaught of higher temperatures, rising sea levels, changing waterfall patterns, and increasing natural disasters. All societies will have to reduce their vulnerability to these changes, and this book describes how vulnerabilities may be addressed in a systematic manner so that governments and local communities may better understand what is happening. Different approaches are also discussed, including the use of human security as a criterion for evaluation as well as ways to deal with risk and uncertainty. Evaluating Climate Change and Development presents a rich variety of methods to assess adaptation through monitoring and evaluation. The volume deals with climate change, development, and evaluation; challenges and lessons learned from evaluations; mitigation of climate change; adaptation to climate change; vulnerability, risks and climate change; and presents a concluding chapter on the road ahead. Collectively the authors offer a set of approaches and techniques for the monitoring and evaluation of climate change.

Author : Timothy S. Thomas,Khandaker Mainuddin,Catherine Chiang,Aminur Rahman,Anwarul Haque,Nazria Islam,Saad Quasem,Yan Sun
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Agriculture and Adaptation in Bangladesh by Timothy S. Thomas,Khandaker Mainuddin,Catherine Chiang,Aminur Rahman,Anwarul Haque,Nazria Islam,Saad Quasem,Yan Sun Pdf

Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to the impact of climate change because it is a low-lying, flat country subject to both riverine flooding and sea level rise, and because a large portion of its population is dependent on agriculture for its livelihood. The goal of this research was to examine the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh, and develop recommendations to policymakers to help farmers adapt to the changes. In this study, we use climate data from four general circulation models (GCMs) to evaluate the impact of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh by 2050. We use the DSSAT (Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer) crop modeling software to evaluate crop yields, first for the 1950 to 2000 period (actual climate) and then for the climates given by the four GCMs for 2050. We evaluate crop yields at 1,789 different points in Bangladesh, using a grid composed of roughly 10 kilometer (km) squares, for 8 different crops in 2000 and 2050. For each crop, we search for the best cultivar (variety) at each square, rather than limiting our analysis to a single variety for all locations. We also search for the best planting month in each square. In addition, we explore potential gains in changing fertilizer levels and in using irrigation to compensate for rainfall changes. This analysis indicates that when practiced together, using cultivars better suited for climate change and adjusting planting dates can lessen the impacts of climate change on yields, especially for rice, and in some cases actually result in higher yields. In addition, the analysis shows that losses in yield due to climate change can be compensated for, for many crops, by increasing the availability of nitrogen in the soil. Moreover, we used a household survey to collect information on the incidence of climatic shocks in the last five years and adaptation options. The survey was conducted from December 2010 to February 2011, covering data from the previous production year. The results confirm that Bangladesh farmers already perceive the impacts of climate change. In particular, the survey results indicate that of all climate change–related shocks, floods, waterlogging, and river erosion caused the largest loss to rice production. Farmers in our survey lost around 12 percent of their harvest, on average, to some kind of shock, with about half of that attributable to flooding-related issues. The second leading cause of rice crop loss was pests, responsible for around 3 percent of production. Taken together, the results indicate that adaptation efforts in Bangladesh should include adjusting planting dates, using improved cultivars better suited for climate change, improving fertilizer application, exploring increased maize production, and bolstering flood and pest protection for farmers.

Author : Narayan Prasad Chaulagain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:255869597

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Impacts of Climate Change on Water Resources of Nepal by Narayan Prasad Chaulagain Pdf