Climate change badly affects agriculture, threatens food security in Odisha Posted by Basudev Mahapatra on August 24, 2012 at 12:32pm Climate change has made the agrarian communities living in coastal, tropical and sub-tropical regions of Odisha its worst victims. The change in the time and amount of rain during the cropping seasons has badly hit the agriculture making it an unviable livelihood option. As a result, the communities’ vulnerability to livelihood loss and food insecurity has increased and Youth of the communities are now forced to migrate as labourers. Read more…