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As a developing tropical island nation in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is highly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. Prolonged droughts, erratic rainfall patterns, floods, landslides, sea level rise, temperature increase, salinization, soil depletion, high winds, and storms are among the rapid- and slow-onset disasters that are brought on or worsened by anthropogenic global warming and the resulting climate change. Climate change severely threatens the lives and livelihoods of Sri Lanka's population as well as the country's economy. The dry zone agriculture sector is especially at risk due to its high dependence on irrigation and the vulnerability of the rural population. In many cases, internal migration has become a last-resort response to the impacts of climate change in dry zone communities.