Reducing vulnerability of agriculture to climatic change through indigenous knowledge: an initiative to forecast weather depending on environmental indicators (A study based on Hambegamuwa and Ralapanawagama villages in Sri Lanka)

Abstract

It is apparent that world climate is changing in mainly resulting in global warming and associated consequences such as sea level rising, growing hot spot, ice malting and varying rain fall. Therefore now a days the word "Climate Change" has become a topic of forefront dialog at both national and international level. Many efforts are being made by world to overcome the problems in two ways one is minimizing some of causes for climate change such as reducing CO2 emission to the atmosphere. The other is making strategies to adopt to the changing climate