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Climate Change 2016
October 27-29, 2016
Volume 7, Issue 9(Suppl) J Earth Sci Clim Change
ISSN: 2157-7617 JESCC, an open access journal
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October 24-26, 2016 Valencia, Spain
World Conference onClimate Change
Climate change as a challenge to the indigenous food security
Pooja Pant
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The challenges of the climate change are multifaceted and play an important role in exacerbating the existing problems.
One of such problems is food security. Achieving food security for ever increasing population growth is one of the top
most priorities of the states and researchers all over the world. Crop failure, drying of water bodies, reduced availability of wild
food, and loss of livestock due to diseases and other climate related hazards are likely to be more severe with rising anomaly
in the world climate. Thus with changing climate, the challenges for achieving world food security is also becoming bigger. It
is more precarious to the people who are already poor and are struggling with existing food security problem. Hence, in order
to tackle the problem of food security and cope with the adversities, in depth understanding of impacts of climate change on
food security is indispensable. This is a significant way to identify best adaptation strategies for communities to achieve food
security in the present climate change scenario. This paper analyses how food security of the households in a rural community
in Far West Nepal is affected by climate change. It particularly focuses on the food security challenges posed by climate change
in food habit of different indigenous communities in a rural society. This paper will explore how indigenous communities try
to cope with the adversities posed by climate change. The data were collected using Participatory Rural Appraisal method and
household surveys.
Biography
Pooja Pant has completed her PhD in July 2015 from City University of Hong Kong. Her PhD thesis is focused on understanding the interrelation and inter-linkage
of households’ livelihood system, food security system and climate change in rural area in Far Western Nepal. She is currently involved in local NGOs in Nepal
and other research works.
Pooja Pant, J Earth Sci Clim Change 2016, 7:9(Suppl)