Climate Change effect on indigenous community

What is it about?

Climate Change has a significant effect on all walks of life or human activities across the world. However, indigenous communities in different parts of the world are more susceptible to the worst effects of climate change due to their dependency on natural resources. Climate change directly affects natural resources such as forests, water, grazing land, bio-diversity and indigenous communities' traditional foods. This study explores how climate change overlaps or intersects the socio-economic, and bio-cultural marginality of the Kalash indigenous community, living in northern Pakistan. The qualitative research paradigm was used to explore how climate change overlaps or intersects the socio-economic marginality of the Kalash Indigenous community. It reveals that climate change has significantly affected Kalash's indigenous community's natural resources such as water, biodiversity, forests, and crops. Climate-induced natural disasters affected their livelihood resources and compelled them to migrate or be displaced from their native town. It reveals that climate change also affects women's marginality in Kalash's indigenous community. It also reveals that climate change overlaps and intersects with the socio-economic marginality of Indigenous communities and policymakers should give priority to Indigenous communities who have a dependency on natural resources to protect them from the effects of climate change across the world

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It is about the Climate change effect on Kalasha indigenous community

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