The Impact of Climate Change on Socio-Economic and Migration as Adapted Coping Strategies in the Eastern Agro-Climatic Zone of Afghanistan

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Published Feb 10, 2024
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2024: ICCC (Special Issue)

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Meraj Sarwary
Rafiullah Rahimzai
Asmatullah Durani

Abstract

Climate change migration has become one of the main challenges in 21st century. Afghanistan is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world due to climate induces in the last three decades. The present study objective to find how the climate change impact on the socio-economic and migration as adapted coping strategies in eastern agro-climatic zone of Afghanistan. The study area was non-probability selected and data were collected from three provinces, Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman out of four provinces according the sample size calculation method 384 sample respondents were face to face interviewed through a structured developed questionnaire. The result of the study showed that socio-economic impact of climate change about 60 percent of respondents say from high to a very high impact on health, agricultural products, opportunity, migrations, and reduction of household income. The results discovered that the sampled respondents among the eight coping strategies internal displacement as the main coping strategy, following the change in cropping pattern, new bore well and migrating children to another country as adapted strategies to mitigate climate variability in the eastern agro-climatic zone of Afghanistan. The study suggests that the government should develop new strategies for natural resources management, construct water dams, create a centralized system for climate data, adoption of technological innovation, and weather-based crop insurance, establish automatic weather stations and increase investment in sustainable agriculture to mitigate the climate change impact in the future.

Keywords

Climate, Change, Migrations, Coping, Strategies, Afghanistan

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Sarwary, M., Rahimzai, R., & Durani, A. (2024). The Impact of Climate Change on Socio-Economic and Migration as Adapted Coping Strategies in the Eastern Agro-Climatic Zone of Afghanistan. Nangarhar University International Journal of Biosciences, 3(02), 165–169. https://doi.org/10.70436/nuijb.v3i02.192

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