Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Security Issues in Malaysia: An Empirical Study on Farm Level Assessment

<div>ABSTRACT</div><div>Climate change is proven to have had impacted the agricultural productivity, crop choice, and</div><div>food security everywhere in the world. The nature, scale, frequency, and outcome of such</div><div>impact differ significantly among countries, regions and areas within a country. This study is</div><div>an effort to empirically investigate theses issues for Malaysia using both primary and</div><div>secondary data collected from and relevant to the Integrated Agriculture Development Areas</div><div>in the Northwest Selangor. The results reveal that climate change phenomenon such as</div><div>natural disaster, drought, flood, pest attack, plant disease, and changing the time of crop cycle</div><div>have adversely been impacting Malaysian agriculture and its productivity as well as</div><div>profitability. Despite continuous increases of government subsidy as well as permission only</div><div>for paddy production, the paddy planting area is decreasing as the agricultural farmers often</div><div>experience adverse impacts of climatic variation. So, climate change phenomenon is also</div><div>depressingly impacting the state of food security among the farmers. As climate change is</div><div>universal and its existence is indefinite, the farmers need to adapt to and find ways to mitigate</div><div>the damages of climatic variation in order for them to sustain agricultural productivity and</div><div>attain food security