Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Adaptation in Pakistan
Daily Times (Pakistan): …Farming practices in agriculturally dominated countries like Pakistan have to be adapted to cope with the ongoing climatic change. While the Indo-Gangetic Plain is currently classified as a highly productive, irrigated agricultural area, climate models show that by 2050 as much as half of the region may be reclassified to a heat-stressed area with a much shorter growing season. Moreover, the UN Environmental Programme warns of an impending ‘Asian haze’ due to increasing pollution that could cause a drastic reduction in rainfall — by between 20 per cent and 40 per cent — particularly in the crucial agricultural regions of north-India and Pakistan .
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