Eleventh International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Abstract

Climate change has the potential to undermine human development across many countries, including Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). The impacts are significant and will require action especially in small island developing states (SIDS) such as T&T who will see a retardation in their development trying to stave off the effect of climate change. It must be remembered that climate change is also a social issue and not simply an environmental or engineering problem. The goal of the study was to gather statistical data about the views of agricultural workers on climate change and its impact on their livelihood. The questionnaire for the study was divided into nine (9) sections. Section 1 dealt with the personal information or bio-data of the respondents. Section 2 focused on knowledge of climate change while section 3 collected data on the views of respondents on how they explain climate change. Section 4 dealt with the changes in production, productivity, markets and sales of farm produce while section 5 looked at issues of income and food security. Further, section 6 focused on infrastructures, section 7 dealt with the support offered by the state to farmers, section 8 looked at social protection and finally section 9 dealt with expectations of farmers on mitigation and adaptation measures to climate change namely Carbon Capture and Storage.