International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Abstract
Global climate is likely to change further and faster over
the coming decades, resulting in adverse impacts on
ecosystems, peoples’ livelihood and economy. There are
evidences that climate change has affected global weather
patterns, disrupted climatic trends and has resulted in
aggravated occurrences of climate related extreme events
such as heavy rainfall, drought, flood, cyclone, storm
surge, etc, claiming thousands of lives, destroying billions
of dollars worth of properties and disrupting livelihoods of
hundreds of millions of people