Climate Change Impact and Agriculture of Bangladesh

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.

Keywords: Bangladesh, Climate Change, Agriculture, Food Security, Vulnerability