Climate Change Impact and Agriculture of Bangladesh

Type Journal Article - Journal of Environment and Earth Science
Title Climate Change Impact and Agriculture of Bangladesh
Author(s)
Volume 4
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2014
Page numbers 35-40
URL http://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEES/article/viewFile/10247/10453
Abstract
Over the last period of years, it has been observed that climate change has become a major issue affecting the
agriculture sector. Impacts of climate change in agriculture are global concern but for Bangladesh where lives
and livelihoods depend on agriculture, it’s becoming a great threat for national food security. Considering crop
agriculture as the predominant factor in the national economy, this paper tries to focus on the climate change
impact and vulnerability in Bangladeshi Agriculture; it also highlights various strategies that can be taken in
response to climate change, ways to adapt to the altered situation and Bangladesh’s saline tolerant, flood tolerant
and shorter maturity varieties of rice and other crops. From this study it also found that these strategies will help
in short run and to continue this extensive agricultural extension services need to make these varieties available
to the farmers. One immediate need is to start multi-disciplinary human capability development planning and
implementation for climate and environmental management.

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