Environment and Ecology Research Vol. 11(2), pp. 274 - 283
DOI: 10.13189/eer.2023.110204
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Agricultural Challenges and Adaptation for Changing Climate: A Study on Early Flash Flood-prone Areas in Bangladesh

Kanis Fatama Ferdushi ^1,2, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan ¹, Anton Abdulbasah Kamil ^3,*
1 Department of Statistics, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
² Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh
³ Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Istanbul Nisantasi University, Istanbul, Turkey

ABSTRACT

Bangladesh's environment and climate have changed a lot and Bangladesh has converted as the most exposed country. This vulnerability is exposed in adverse way in Bangladesh due to magnitude of changing climate. It can be said that for national food security, respective agricultural household should adapt to climate change. A large portion of inhabitants of Bangladesh are dependent on agriculture for their needs, living, income and maintenance, and most importantly economic growth also depends on agriculture. To adapt to climate vulnerability, farmers may face many challenges. In this regard, the first motto was to perceive the level of challenges faced in agriculture such as unpredictable weather, excess cost of inputs, restricted access to agricultural markets, etc. during production. For fulfilling this specific objective, adoption of resilience indices to agriculture were developed. Those adoption resilience indices were making hurdles for farmer's livelihood and adjustment due to climate change. The adoption resilience indices were calculated through the principal confrontation matrix, and it was found that "unpredictable weather" ranked as number one followed by the high cost of farm inputs. Another objective of this exploration was to explore how those adaptation resilience indices affect farmers' enthusiasm for their adaptation. To fulfil this objective, the ordered logit model had been used using 378 boro cultivator's data which were collected from selected 'haor' (lowland) in Sylhet. The results show that the two variables namely "Changed in crop varieties" and "Changed crop to livestock" had a positive impact on the farmers' adapting strategies for changing climate. That means, those farmers were easily motivated to change their crop varieties and preferred rearing livestock during flood.

KEYWORDS
Perception, Adaptation Planning, Unpredictable Weather, Farmers' Enthusiasm, Flash Flood

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Kanis Fatama Ferdushi , Mohammad Nayeem Hasan , Anton Abdulbasah Kamil , "Agricultural Challenges and Adaptation for Changing Climate: A Study on Early Flash Flood-prone Areas in Bangladesh," Environment and Ecology Research, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 274 - 283, 2023. DOI: 10.13189/eer.2023.110204.

(b). APA Format:
Kanis Fatama Ferdushi , Mohammad Nayeem Hasan , Anton Abdulbasah Kamil (2023). Agricultural Challenges and Adaptation for Changing Climate: A Study on Early Flash Flood-prone Areas in Bangladesh. Environment and Ecology Research, 11(2), 274 - 283. DOI: 10.13189/eer.2023.110204.