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...ate, sub-temperate, sub-arctic and arctic) across 800 meters length east west and 200 meters width north-south and across elevation range of below 100 to 8848masl, the highest pick in the world. The mountains are experiencing rapid snow melting while the Terai is facing prolonged drought. Agriculture and livestock activities are adversely affected by these changes. Nepal has been constantly experiencing changes in weather and climate throughout the country. Temperature data analysed for the past clearly show the increasing trend of temperature over time, although the progression is not linear [9] nor is the change uniformly distributed across the geographic regions [8]. Nepal is prone to a variety of recurring climate-induced risks such as floods, drought, hailstorms, avalanches, glacial lack outburst floods (GLOFs) and heat and cold waves. Poor, disadvantaged and excluded groups residing in rural areas are usually the hardest hit by these natural disasters. Agriculture, the principal economic sector, is highly exposed and most vulnerable to these extreme climate events. Global climate change constitutes an additional threat to the already deprived rural population heavily engaged in ...

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... also shown that rainfall was decreasing by 22.779 mm/year as shown in Table 7. 4.4.6. Impact of Climate Change on Different Crops Generally, for the impact analysis of climate change on different crops indirect crop simulation model and regression analysis is used. Here, we used multi linear regression model in which crop yield (rice, wheat, maize and millet) of each district (secondary data) is dependent variable and climatic variable (temperature, rainfall and humidity) of growing season are the independent variable. Multivariate regression analysis to access the impact on crops is used in [4]. Regression analysis on Rice: The result suggest that in rice, the model explains 40% to 15% variation on rice yield in three districts. In Jhapa, rainfall has negatively significant and relative humidity has significantly positive relation to rice yield at 5% confident level and 10 % confident level respectively. Similar result was found in Karn [6] that rainfall has negative effect on rice yield. In Sindhuli, climatic variables could not significantly influence the rice yield. Similarly, in Kalikot rainfall has significantly positive relation to rice yield at 10% confident level, while othe...

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...est and 200 meters width north-south and across elevation range of below 100 to 8848masl, the highest pick in the world. The mountains are experiencing rapid snow melting while the Terai is facing prolonged drought. Agriculture and livestock activities are adversely affected by these changes. Nepal has been constantly experiencing changes in weather and climate throughout the country. Temperature data analysed for the past clearly show the increasing trend of temperature over time, although the progression is not linear [9] nor is the change uniformly distributed across the geographic regions [8]. Nepal is prone to a variety of recurring climate-induced risks such as floods, drought, hailstorms, avalanches, glacial lack outburst floods (GLOFs) and heat and cold waves. Poor, disadvantaged and excluded groups residing in rural areas are usually the hardest hit by these natural disasters. Agriculture, the principal economic sector, is highly exposed and most vulnerable to these extreme climate events. Global climate change constitutes an additional threat to the already deprived rural population heavily engaged in agriculture. The climate change projections indicate that the main impacts...