Within living memory agriculture has been the fundamental human activity for food production to support the livelihood of everyone on earth. The human wellbeing depends strongly on the success of the agricultural sector whereas the agriculture’s success is linked to climate conditions that have started to change rapidly over the last decade due to global warming. Based on recent research studies and current literature this paper summarizes the impact of climate change on U.S. agricultural businesses. Research show that the majority of these impacts are negative such as increased flooding, rise in sea level, more frequent severe storms, droughts, heat-waves, and related effects on animal health, pests and plant diseases. Also, few positive effects are reported like increased plant growth rate because of warmer temperatures, longer growing seasons, carbon dioxide fertilization effect, and enhanced water availability.
However, the main purpose of this paper is to identify ways to respond to these issues of climate change. Thus, two ways are discussed: 1. Mitigation of climate change impacts by reducing carbon dioxide emission through the use of bio-fuels from agricultural products and refeeding of atmospheric carbon subsurface by carbon sequestration (biotic and abiotic). 2. Adaptation to occurring climate change in a proactive way through mechanisms such as knowledge and learning, improvement of risk and disaster management, infrastructure development, institutional design and reform, public policy, and technological innovation. Stopping climate change may be difficult or impossible. However, it is the objective of this paper to show that there are ways to adapt so that adverse impacts can be reduced or even reversed.
|Keywords:||Climate Change, Global Warming, Agriculture, Carbon Dioxide Effect on Weeds, Plant Diseases, Drought, Heat Waves, Hurricanes and Severe Storms, Floods, Sea Level Rise, Carbon Dioxide Fertilization, Mitigation, Bio-Fuel, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Proactive Adaptation, Infrastructure Development, Institutional Reform, Climate Policies, Technology Innovation|
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