Climate change and heat-waves : rural-to-urban migration in Pakistan, a silent looming crisis
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2015-11
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Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI)
Abstract
The policy brief summarizes findings and recommendations from a recent study on climate-induced internal migration in Pakistan. Heat stress in particular affects agricultural productivity of winter crops like wheat, a staple food which is grown in arid and semiarid areas of Pakistan. Given the sensitivity of wheat crop to heat-stress, by 2030 the anticipated decline in wheat production will affect the rural poor and marginal households across Pakistan, who will be forced to cope with the situation and will incentivise the rural poor to out-migrate.
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RURAL-URBAN AREAS, SEMI-ARID REGIONS, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, WHEAT, CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY, HEAT STRESS, RURAL ECONOMY, RURAL POOR, MIGRATION, URBANIZATION, PAKISTAN, SOUTH ASIA