How do Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Economic Growth affect CropsProduction in Pakistan?

Abstract

Climate change has become one of the most imperative problems of this century. Climate change is a grave global threat, and Pakistan has been ranked eighth on the list of countries most vulnerable to climate change by the German watch Global Climate Risk Index. The increasing amount of carbon dioxide (CO2), the foremost contributor to environmental degradation, seems to provoke this problem. Agriculture-based economies have always been dependent on the vagaries of nature and climate. Present study analyses the climate change,  environmental degradation, input index and economic growth impact on crops production in Pakistanfrom 1977 to 2016. Our study employsAuto Regressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) to check the long run association among the variables. The results shows that positive association among climate change and crops production in the longrun.On the behalf of results policymakers must drive attention to adopt advanced cultivation processes using farming practice through international research institutions' assistance to further improve crops production in Pakistan.