Climate change is a most important challenge to meet the sufficient food demand for increasing the world population in the 21st century while it is difficult to sustain the already stressed environment. Climate change has negative impacts on water resources, crops production, hydropower, and human health worldwide (Nelson, Rosegrant, Koo, Robertson, Sulser, Zhu, & Magalhaes, 2009). The global climate is changing rapidly over millennia but from the past few decades emission of greenhouse gasses (GHG)
water, and food. The climate in Pakistan is slowly but surely changing. This is a wakeup call for all of us as Pakistan is among the top twenty global warming hotspots in the world. Pakistan has a low adaptive capacity and no adaptability plan due to limited economic resources. This study demonstrates the climate variability
Agriculture Sector: Current Status and Vulnerability In Pakistan both agriculture & livestock sectors are the foundation of the national economy. These sectors are contributing 21% to GDP, accounts for more than 60% of nation’s exports. Moreover, the same sector is providing livelihood to 66% of the people living in rural areas and employs 42% of the labour force of country. The leading challenge facing the sector is to effectively supply of the food & fiber basic necessities of a growing age without
for higher studies in sustainability is strongly influenced by energy crisis in Pakistan. Energy is considered to be life of any economy. Living in a country suffering from a multitude of problems, especially energy-related problems have proven to be the worse in the past few years. There is very fast and quick increase in demand of energy due to advancement in technology and industry. Now a days some areas of Pakistan are facing 4-6 hours load shedding every day. The main reasons include inadequate
for our usage. Within this fraction, most of the usable water is in the form of ice caps, glaciers and surface water. Thus, water being an essential element to human life poses as a concern when dealt with scarcity or availability. That being said, Pakistan faces a severe national problem because of its water crisis; amassing diverse factors which strengthen its roots. On an individual level, people contribute to water crisis by first wasting water in their homes on other purposes than drinking. In
The longer-term changes and impact of project interventions greatly depend on the continuation and extension in the coverage of services in times to come. The overall expected impacts of these services will include minimization and eradication of drug abuse culture in street children and finally integration of these children in the society as normal citizens. On one hand this will result in more positively oriented and productive children, playing their due role in uplift of their families and society
demand for milk is increasing in Pakistan due to high population growth (Hussian, Ghafoor & Saboor, 2010). Dairy cattle are the main source for producing the milk in the Pakistan. This source produces 62% of milk by buffaloes and 34% of milk by cows (Zia et al., 2011). The annual milk production from cows increased 7.46 to 9.40 million tonnes and milk production from buffaloes increased 14.96 to 21.33 million tonnes during 1996-2006 (Zia et al., 2011). Globally, Pakistan is the 2nd largest buffalo milk
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is the central bank of Pakistan. The headquarters are located in the financial capital of Pakistan, Karachi with branch offices in 15 cities across Pakistan, including the capital city, Islamabad and the four provincial capitals. The State Bank of Pakistan looks into many ranges of banking to deal with changes in the economic climate and different purchasing and buying powers. Here are some of the banking areas that the bank looks into: 1) State Bank’s Shariah Board
Introduction Pakistan and Nigeria have two things in common, reactionary, religious operators and a society which oppresses women. Nigeria is the nation with the highest amount of non-attendees in school in the world, and the majority of these children are girls. A total of 10 million youths are not receiving formal education, and in the current, violent climate, this number is rising. Education and literacy is amongst the most important and efficient tools used for changing the quality of lives
General Zia’s postponement of democratic elections. Through flattery and intimidation, the activists bring Saleem to a political meeting in Rawalpindi, where people encourage the crowd to commit themselves to jihad (religious war) in order to make Pakistan an Islamic state. With a false sense of meaningfulness, Saleem abandon Ayesha and Zubeida who are shocked at Saleem for becoming angry, neglectful and hostile. Tensions are heightened by a religious pilgrimage of Sikhs from India, many of them used