Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate change. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 August 2016

Agriculture in 115 Indian districts most at risk from climate change


As floods ravage eastern and northern India, agriculture in 115 districts across 15 states is "highly vulnerable" to climate change, according to a study published in the Indian Academy of Science journal Current Science. The first to analyse 38 meteorological, agricultural and social data across all of India's 572 rural districts, the study creates a climate vulnerability index for agriculture, divided into five categories of vulnerability: Very