Abstract
Climate Projection shows the impacts of climate change on agricultural sustainability and relevant livelihood sustainability is vulnerable in Malaysia. Here mitigation is necessary but adapting to future risk is more important for immediate and long term action relating to the larger number of stakeholders in local scale. Generally adaptation policy has different levels and approaches that related with different challenges. Several countries have already prepared their adaptation approaches in their own way. Malaysia is on the way to develop its adaptation policy for last couple of years. This paper focuses on few guidelines that need to examine carefully while determining the climatic change adaptation approach for agricultural sector in Malaysia.
Highlights
The changing patterns of climate factors adversely affect the social, economical and environmental agents all over the world
Rice, wheat and maize make up 85% of world cereal exports which are the main sensitive crops to climate change
Under current climate change scenario, temperature above 25oC may decline grain mass of 4.4% per 1oC rise (Tashiro and Wardlaw, 1989), and grain yield may decline as much as 9.6%-10.0% per 1oC rise (Baker and Allen, 1993)
Summary
To cite this version: Md. Mahmudul Alam, Chamhuri Siwar, Abul Al-Amin. Climate Change Adaptation Policy Guidelines for Agricultural Sector in Malaysia. Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management, Research Publishing, 2010, 02, 10.3850/s1793924011000873. HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. Asian Journal of Environmental and Disaster Management (ISSN 1793-9240), Vol 2(4), pp. Citation Reference: Alam, M.M., Siwar, C., and Al-Amin, A.Q. 2010. Climate Change Adaptation Policy Guidelines for Agricultural Sector in Malaysia, Asian Journal of Environmental and Disaster Management, Vol 2(4), pp. The published article is copyrighted by the publisher of the journal
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