India, March 5 -- Every day of extreme precipitation causes poor households to lose 0.8 per cent of their incomes relative to non-poor households

With every day of extreme heat, poor rural households lose 2.4 per cent of their on-farm incomes, 1.1 per cent of the value of the crops they produce and 1.5 per cent of their off-farm income, relative to non-poor households in India and 23 other low-and-middle-income-countries (LMIC). This was highlighted in a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

If the average long-term temperatures were to increase by 1degC, rural poor households will be pushed to depend more on climate-sensitive agriculture and lose off-farm opportunities, the findings showed....