Impact of Climate Change on Food Security in Afghanistan

Abstract

Climate change and its toll, warming temperatures, and decreasing precipitation levels over the last fifty years have led to innumerable weather anomalies that have caused droughts, floods, seasonal precipitation, and decline of groundwater chart, deforestation, and biodiversity in Afghanistan. Among all population groups, rural communities in Afghanistan are particularly vulnerable from the effects of climate change and especially the increasing of food insecurity because their livelihoods is strongly depend on agriculture activities. Therefore, rural families have been taking some poor measures to cope with climatic conditions and adapt to them. Because poorest people, particularly farmers and pastoralists are often living on edgy land, and food security and their livelihoods suffer from climate change. So that most worrying and need to be addressed most urgently. Therefore, climate analysis help to recognize the areas that there are the biggest changes in rainfall, temperature and other physical climate parameters. This, from this kind of climate data can find that what impacts of these changes will actually observe on poverty and food insecurity, and how is increased people's livelihood by the creation of food security and suitable income.