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Farmers Perceptions about Climate Change Vulnerabilities and their Adaptation Measures in District Swat

Farmers Perceptions about Climate Change Vulnerabilities and their Adaptation Measures in District Swat

Muhammad Suleman Bacha1*, Mohammad Nafees1 and Syed Adnan2
 

1Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Peshawar; 2University of Eastern Finland. Faculty of Forest Sciences. PO Box 111, Joensuu, Finland.

[email protected]
 

Figure 1

Map of the study area 

Figure 2

Temperature variation in mean annual maximum and mean annual minimum temperature for 31-year dataset (Source: PMD Data) 

Figure 3

Variation of mean annual prepetition in the last 31 years (1985-2015) (Source: PMD Data) 

Figure 4

Perceived causes of climate change in the study area (Source: Primary data from interviews) 

Figure 5

Perceived impacts of climate change in the study area (Source: Primary data from interviews) 

Figure 6

Damages received to the farming lands in the study area (Source: Primary data from interviews) 

Figure 7

Percentage of the crop production affected due to natural disasters in the past 10 years (Source: Primary data from interviews) 

Figure 8

Farmer perceptions about the major problems affecting crop production in the study area (Source: Primary data from interviews) 

Figure 9

Local adaptation and coping strategies to climate change vulnerabilities in Agriculture based livelihoods in Barikiot, Ghaligay and Shamozai UCs (Source: Primary data from interviews) 

Sarhad Journal of Agriculture

September

Vol.40, Iss. 3, Pages 680-1101

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