Topic > Climate Change Adaptation in Sri Lanka - 544

Climate change adaptation is defined as the range of actions taken in response to changes in local and regional climatic conditions (Smit et al., 2000). Adapting to climate change simply means reducing the vulnerability of people's lives and livelihoods to the risks posed by climate change. Agricultural adaptation measures can be classified into policy-level interventions, technological development and farm-level management practices. The Government of Sri Lanka, realizing the importance of climate change adaptation, has taken numerous initiatives at the policy level to address climate change concerns and among initiatives; the most important is the recently formulated national climate change adaptation strategy. The national strategy for adaptation to climate change is structured into five strategic areas of which the third is focused on minimizing the impacts of climate change on food security (NCCAS, 2010). Sri Lanka ratified the UNFCC in 1993 and the Kyoto Protocol in 2002, thus affirming its commitments in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Sri Lanka...