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Islamabad, Pakistan As a new wave of the cloud, seasonal winds and floods throughout Pakistan cause Solangi’s turnout at his small home in the southern coastal city of Karachi, and feels the pain of those who lost their loved ones, land and livestock.

Since late June, seasonal winds have been heavier than usual, followed by floods and landslides, more than 800 people have been damaged, at least 7,225 homes were affected, and more than 5,500 livestock was washed as well as the widespread destruction of crops throughout the country.

Although the exact cause of floods has not yet been determined, many factors could have contributed to the flood, including climate change. Pakistan is ranked first among the top 10 countries of the most climate, but contributes to less than 1 percent of global emissions.

Solaniji finished his delegation that was changed to the climate from agriculture in 2022, but he ended up losing the rice crop due to the flood for the third time after the 2010 and 2012 floods, and found himself under a huge pile of debt again.

In 2012, he moved from a small village on the boundaries of the provinces of Sind and Baluchistan to Karachi because the climate change made the profession of his ancestors not sustainable. Bringing the displacement to a temporary end of three decades of agriculture.

“When I was immersed in my house and my land, I was sitting in observing everything that was washed away, I decided that I would never return to him,” Solangi told Makeira, talking about the floods of 2022, which affected 33 million people and flooded 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of agricultural lands.

The Report of the Climate Average Index in 2025 Pakistan was placed in the top of the list of the most affected countries based on the 2022 data. Then, nearly a third of the country was flooded, killing more than 1700 people, causing damage to $ 14.8 billion, in addition to $ 15.2 billion of economic losses, and paid nine million people to poverty.

In an article published in August, the Pakistani newspaper Al -Fajr wrote: “In Pakistan today, the monsoon winds turned from the symbol of beauty and renewal into a harbinger of chaos and despair. What was previously waiting with excitement now with dread.”

Last year, more floods affected thousands, and a wave of heat was killed nearly 600 people. The gradual rise in temperatures also dissolves the melting of 13,000 ice rivers in Pakistan, which increases the risk of floods, infrastructure damage, life and land loss, threats to societies, and water scarcity.

Agriculture remains a major contributor to the Pakistani economy, as it contributed about 24 percent of its GDP (GDP), according to the Pakistani Statistics Office (PBS). Rizk is also linked to about 40 million people with agriculture, which employs more than 37 percent of the workforce.

In an interview with Al -Jazeera earlier this year, the Minister of Climate Change warned that the impact of melting of glaciers on the river networks and channels of the channel “will have severe consequences on the Pakistani agricultural economy.”

“These people (who work on agriculture) do not have economic security, and given the current economic development stage, the government lacks anywhere to provide such a large segment of the population if these beating floods wash our infrastructure and destructive agricultural lands.

This year, the agricultural sector scored a modest growth of 0.6 percent, as it dramatically decreased from the target of 2 percent and much less than the growth announced by 6.4 percent.

A recent study published in the Nature Journal magazine says that Sahl Al -Sind in Pakistan witnessed 19 flooding disaster between 1950 and 2012, which affects an area of ​​about 600,000 square meters (231661.3 square meters), which caused the death of 11239 deaths, which leads to economic damage exceeding 39 billion dollars. Half of these events occurred after 2000.

The figures shared by PBS show an increase in the number of agricultural lands throughout Pakistan over the past few years, from 8.6 million in 2010 to 11.7 million last year, increasing in all provinces Punjab. However, the changes in rainy patterns have also greatly affected farmers.

In the northwestern northwestern boycott of Khyber Bakhtongu, beauty signs are compatible with his land, but he says that his crop has almost disappeared over the past decade due to drought.

The beauty of a small company runs its income, but it shows that the shift from agricultural practices has fell in a double danger. Income and products have decreased dramatically, as many farmers move to urban centers to work. In addition, some farmers now have livestock, which, due to a lack of feed, destroys their unprotected crops.

According to the Pakistani Economic Survey 2024-25, the main crops, such as wheat and cotton, have a contract of 13.5 percent, restricting the total GDP growth rate by 0.6 percent.

Agriculture is now like “gambling with nature”

For Mohamed Hashem, the farmer in the largest province of Pakistan, Balochistan, agriculture in an unpredictable climate “like gambling with nature” due to the frequent floods and drought that forced him to migrate several times.

He stuck to agriculture despite “watching our indisplicable crops, and failing year after year.”

Hashem said: “Ten years ago, we had no choice but to leave the lands of our ancestors and immigration in search of survival.” Then the destroyed floods came in 2022. Everything was rebuilt was washed away. Our fields were destroyed again. The following year, we moved again. For a short period, we found some peace.

“I worked on my farm and in a store. Our children returned to school, and life began to feel the natural way.”

According to the Institute of Immigration Policy, more than eight million people were displaced due to the floods of 2022, including farmers who gave up their lands and moved to the cities.

The report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on the 2022 floods said: “It will be remembered in 2022 as a decisive year and an attempt by Pakistan, with the increasing macroeconomic and financial fears, and the cost of the living crisis that affects the most weak floods, and the mixtures whose threats of regular change,” said the report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on the 2022 floods.

However, shortly after a period, drought forced him to move again, but “the situation is worse than ever.”

He said: “In one year of floods, the next day, drought,” adding that if this pattern continues, it will end the days of agriculture.

This story was produced in partnership with the Politzer Center.