The Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Afghanistan: A Review

Shermohammad Wafa; Rahimullah Himatkhwa; Mohammad Sadiq Salihi

doi:10.62810/jnsr.v2iSpecial.Issue.133

Authors

Shermohammad Wafa Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Plant Sciences, Afghanistan National Agricultural Sciences and Technology University (ANASTU), Kandahar, Afghanistan
Rahimullah Himatkhwa Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Plant Sciences, Afghanistan National Agricultural Sciences and Technology University (ANASTU), Kandahar, Afghanistan
Mohammad Sadiq Salihi Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Plant Sciences, Afghanistan National Agricultural Sciences and Technology University (ANASTU), Kandahar, Afghanistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62810/jnsr.v2iSpecial.Issue.133

Keywords:

Afghanistan Agriculture, Agriculture Production, Climate Change, Drought, Precipitation, Temperature

Abstract

Climate change is a global threat to agriculture and agricultural products worldwide. Since the Green Revolution, greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere have increased rapidly, such as CO2, N2O, and CH4, which have caused global warming. Furthermore, due to global warming, the temperature has risen rapidly in most parts of the world in recent years. Agriculture in Afghanistan has been negatively affected by climate change factors in the last few decades. Such as drought, changes in the time and quantity of precipitation, and temperature caused losses in agricultural products. The impacts of climate change on Afghanistan's agriculture sector and agricultural products have not yet been widely investigated in previous literature. Thus, this review aims to describe the most vulnerable factors of climate change in Afghanistan. This review also focuses on adapting practices that reduce the negative effects of climate change on agriculture. The combination of all the information mentioned above may be useful to policymakers and governmental and nongovernmental organizations to state a reasonable plan to reduce the negative effects of climate change on agriculture and agriculture products that the plants face in the future under climate change conditions in Afghanistan.

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