Rapid population growth has driven by high fertility, large household size and high migration rate in Dubiya village.Deterioration of climate sensitive ecosystem services such as agriculture, water resource and forest affects the livelihood of population.Local people perceived change in temperature and precipitation pattern of the area with erratic rainfall and extreme events.Local people are mostly exposed to flood, forest fire and frost events.The incidence of declining ground water level and droughts are fairly common.Agriculture was found to be the most vulnerable sector affected by change in population dynamics and climate change with decrease productivity and incidence of disease, pest and weeds.The vulnerability of local people is enhanced by land fragmentation and distribution, large household size, and lack of income diversification, low education status, and food insecurity.Awareness on climate change and capacity building to diversify the livelihood source will help to strengthen the resilience of people.
Khanal et al. (Sat,) studied this question.
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