Livelihood status of coastal shrimp farmers in Bangladesh: Comparison before and during COVID-19

The moderating role of Covid-19-related support on urban livelihood capitals: Evidence from suburban Accra

“…The results show statistically significant negative relationships between COVID-19 impacts and the livelihood capitals. This confirms the observation from the literature that health pandemics like COVID-19 often have negative impacts on residents’ livelihoods ( Braam et al, 2021 ; Rahman et al, 2021 ). Specifically, the study reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic reduced residents’ household expenditure and ability to save money, lowered their creditworthiness, reduced the remittances they received from and give to family and friends.…”

COVID-19's effects and adaptation strategies in fisheries and aquaculture sector: An empirical evidence from Bangladesh

“…Owners of boats had a greater income reduction (49%) than fishers (26%). Rahman et al (2021) Bangladesh Shrimp aquaculture The cost of shrimp production increased significantly during COVID-19, lowering profitability. …”

Intensity of adoption and welfare impacts of drought-tolerant rice varieties cultivation in Bangladesh

“…In the third stage, four villages were selected from each sub-district to conduct the face-to-face interviews. The following formula was used to determine the appropriate sample size ( Kanyenji et al., 2020 ; Rahman et al., 2021a ): where n o is the sample size, z 2 is the 95% confidence interval, p is the estimated proportion of an attribute that is present in the population, q is 1− p and e is the desired precision level. First, a list of rice farmers was prepared for each village.…”