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MEKARN Workshop 2009: Livestock, Climate Change and the Environment |
The main objective of this reviewing study is to provide basic knowledges about climate change, assessment approaches of climate change impact and adaptation to climate change in agricultural production in coastal and inland sandy areas. Climate change means changes that do not follow natural laws and variance of climate in long period. Root causes of climate changes are human activities (industry, transportation/traffic, agriculture...). There have been three major approaches in assessment of climate change impacts. Those are: influenced approach, interaction approach and integrated approach. Agricultural production, aquaculture and fishing are the most affected production sectors and vulnerable by climate change. Climate change may reduce production capacity and efficiency of crop, livestock, yield aquacultural and fishing, increase diseases as well as investment in production activities. Agriculturalists in general and farmers in coastal and inland sandy areas in particular have adjusted their production systems to adapt to climate changes such as changing crop variety and livestock breeding that can highly tolerate to changes of climate, improving modes of production, adjusting seasonal calendar and finding alternative livelihood activities.