Environmental policies to protect pollinators : Attributed to climate change

ISBN-13: 9786202062800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 72 str.

Burhan Ahmad

Opis

The impact of climate change on oil seed crop is getting more and more pronounced with each passing day, resulting in reduced crop yield over Pakistan. Pakistan is an agricultural country of which flood, drought, changing rainfall pattern is a main issue arising due to climate change.Pollinators have already been stressed by climate change impacts. Extreme weather events can cause further severe impacts on these pollinators by causing high overwintering losses. Less roving pollinators, such as small beetles and ground nesting bees, may be the most severely struck by outcomes such as flooding and gusts. Extreme conditions not only can disrupt individual insect livelihood, but can also negatively impact entire colonies or local populations. It is recommended to take offensive measures to consider these issues, otherwise the total cultivated area may decrease and market of oil seed crop will be deteriorated. Moreover, in that respect there is a desperate need to aggressively explore opportunities of capacity building and institutional strengthening to address the climate change issues in Pakistan.

O autorze

Burhan Ahmad has worked in generation of climate change scenarios for environmental and agricultural attributions over South Asia and Pakistan. He has scientific contribution in local and international projects including Agriculture Model Inter-comparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) and is author of several climate-agriculture research works.