Socio-Economic Impact of Climate Change in rural Livelihood: A Case Study of Janakinagar VDC, Kailali, Nepal

Abstract

Climate change is in the center of contemporary environmental discussions. The negative consequences of climate change have already been realized in many places around the world and it is predicted that the consequences would be more servere in the future. The issue of climate change is particularly related to resource dependent communities because they are considered to be most susceptible to the impacts of biophysical changes. The impact of climate change in natural resources on rural livelihood. Climate change is the global issues. It is directly or indirectly affection livelihood. So, we want to know awareness level of community people on climate change and its impact. The main objective of their study was to examine the situation of climate change in the study area in last 30 years and analyze the impact of climate change in natural resource on rural livelihood with the copping mechanism of people against climate change impact. The study is based on descriptive research design. The universe of the study was 195 households out of 50 sample household have been selected in sampling procedure with random sampling for interview survey. Nature of data were qualitative form and it showed in percentage, bar-diagram and pie-chart to analyze from survey from primary data were collected by household survey, key informant interview, focus group discussion, field observation research article, case studies, papers, journals etc. More than 80 percent households responded that they have perceived increase temperature and unpredictable rainfall pattern. People have observed unexpected changes in their weather, water and environment. More then 60% respondents experienced increasing warm days and shortening cold winter days. 70% of the respondent reported that the rainfall pattern is changing in the area since last 3 decades. Climate change has affected agriculture production and human health, water resource is decreasing. Only 24 percent were found to have enough production of food grains and 16 percent, 28 percent, 32 percent were found to have food sufficient for 0-3 months, 0-6 months, 0-9 months respectively. So, people are separating from their traditional occupation, way of life and they are seeking alternative professions. Local adaptive capacity was poor knowingly or unknowingly some copping strategies like use of boarding to irrigation land an loose check dam to flood control or ripening Nurcut were adopted within the community. There is an urgent need to formulate adaptive strategies for food security. Climate change induced disasters in the area with dissemination of information about climate change. It is concluded that climate change is creating multidimensional impacts of the life of rural communities. Adaptation practices must be development and awareness level of the people on climate change. The systematic collection of such information would allow scientist, researchers and policy makers to be design and implement appropriate adaptation strategies for climate change in the area that are especially vulnerable.