The coastal district was home to one of the world's earliest settled civilisations and also became one of the largest tomato producing regions in Asia. Now this area is waterlogged and can barely sustain agriculture.
Extreme weather events have persistently affected coastal areas of Badin, often provoking humanitarian disaster. Now the prospect of global warming in delta regions brings added problems, including salt water intrusion of crops and the increased risk of extreme climatic events. These problems are having tremendous impacts on areas already affected by severe environmental strain as a result of human activity.
In 2008, Oxfam GB in Pakistan undertook community-based research to better understand the implications of climate change for communities living in the Badin coastal region of Pakistan. This research was initiated following discussions between programme staff and partners about the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) 2007 reports, as well as the UNDP Human Development report of the same year.
This case study is an analysis of a pilot climate change adaptation project designed by Oxfam GB in response to the research.
