Perceived farm-level climatic impacts on coastal agricultural productivity in Bangladesh

Hasan, Kamrul; Kumar, Lalit

doi:10.1007/s10584-020-02708-3

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“…Farmers in the coastal regions of the country are forced to alter or diversify their agricultural activities to cope with climate-driven hazards (Burchfield & Poterie, 2018). Besides, several natural disasters, such as cyclones, floods, tidal surges, droughts, salinity intrusion and waterlogging, pose severe threats to their lives and livelihoods (Bernier et al, 2016; Hasan & Kumar, 2020; Shameem et al, 2014). Each year, they experience a massive loss of productive land and damage to other natural resources, such as freshwater estuary, grassland, forests, etc., that threaten their livelihoods and food security (Alam, 2017; Pouliotte et al, 2009).…”

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Determinants of Livelihood Diversification Under Environmental Change in Coastal Community of Bangladesh

Roy

Basu

2020

Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development

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The life and livelihood of coastal farming communities in Bangladesh are highly vulnerable to climate and environmental change. Diversification of farmers’ income sources beyond agriculture can be an effective way to cope with the adverse impacts of environmental change. The purpose of this study is to analyse the options and determinants of livelihood diversification (LD) strategies adopted by farmers in the coastal region of Bangladesh. Multiple linear regression technique along with Simpson index, Herfindahl index and priority index have been used for the analysis. Simple random sampling and multistage sampling have been used to select the sample and the study area, respectively. The magnitude of farming household diversification is at medium level. A significant share of annual income comes primarily from fish and rice production, domestic bird rearing and working as agricultural labour. The adoption of diversified activities is strongly influenced by age and education of household head, number of earning family members, social network and government donation. The frequent occurrence of natural disasters, inadequate infrastructure and lack of financial capacity are the critical constraints to LD.

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Determinants of Livelihood Diversification Under Environmental Change in Coastal Community of Bangladesh

Roy

Basu

2020

Asia-Pacific Journal of Rural Development

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“…Vegetable production is the main source to provide nutrition and uplift the socio-economic benefit of smallholder farmers of Bogura district (Department of Agricultural Extension, DAE, 2017). Some studies focused on farmers perception towards effect of climate change in agriculture whereas others focused on climate change impact on food security (Akanda and Howlader, 2015;Kabir et al, 2016;Hasan and Kumar, 2020). But how the smallholder vegetable farmers of Bogura district adjust with adverse condition to climate change for maintaining their livelihood is not studied.…”

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Exploring the determinants and constraints of smallholder vegetable farmers’ adaptation capacity to climate change: A case of Bogura District, Bangladesh

Kabir¹,

Azad²,

Islam³

2020

J. Agric. Crop Res

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Climate change adaptation strategies are one of the best alternatives to reduce the impacts of climate change on vegetable production. This paper examined the adaptation capacity level of the vegetable growers, determinants of their adaptation decision and constraints they are facing. Data were captured through a Questionnaire survey and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) conducted with the farmers of Bogura district, Bangladesh. Frequency counts, mean, percentage, range and linear regression model, were used to analyze the data. The survey revealed that 52% of farmers had moderate adaptation capacity followed by 28 and 20% had low and high adaptation capacity respectively. There were nine strategies in the study area, some of which common are homestead vegetable gardening, alternative irrigation, use of integrated pest management (IPM), changing the sowing time, and vegetable beds are raised. Multiple regression analysis showed that farmers adaptation capacity is characterized by their annual family income, contact with media, and distance of home to the market. Barriers to expanding adaptation strategies identified by farmers include: lack of information on climate change, shortage of land, lack of credit access, flood effect, absence of flood tolerant variety, poor soil fertility and shortage of labor. This paper recommends that the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) should provide more information focus to adaptation strategies to the farmers live close to the market, having less income and owner of small farm size.

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“…Access to information and institutional factors: In line with previous studies, the probit model shows that the frequency of visits of government extension workers increases the likelihood of adopting BU (Table 2). Moreover, institutional affiliation and information sources can notably influence farming decisions (Aryal et al ., 2018; Hasan and Kumar, 2020). Also, extension service can strengthen farmers' agricultural knowledge base (Haque et al ., 2016) since it is an important information source about improved agricultural production and management practices (Onyeneke et al ., 2018), and particularly can help environmental-friendly technology adoption.…”

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“…Farmers with past experiences of frequent and disastrous cyclones perceive decreasing farm productivity and are less willing to adopt new technologies (Hasan and Kumar, 2020). This would suggest high cyclone vulnerability is associated with lower BU adoption.…”

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Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice production: the socio-economic, climatic and technological determinants of briquette urea adoption

Anik

Begho

Sharna

et al. 2022

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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Deep placement of briquette urea (BU) is environmentally friendly and promotes for better nitrogen use efficiency. Nonetheless, its farm-level adoption is low. This paper contributes to the existing literature on climate-smart technology adoption by examining the factors that affect the BU adoption decision using the national representative Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS-15) dataset consisting of 3384 rice farmers in Bangladesh. BU adoption probability is higher for farms that specialize in rice production, have more assets, use mobile phones for farming and have better access to extension services. Also, empowered women have a higher propensity to adopt BU. However, living in the feed the future zone decreases adoption probability. BU adoption probability is inversely correlated with rainfall and salinity vulnerability, while the opposite is observed for cyclone and drought vulnerability. Compared to the prilled urea (PU) users, the BU adopters applied a significantly lower amount of urea. The adopters produce more and have a relatively higher return, though the differences are insignificant. The relatively high price of BU compared to PU and the associated high labor requirement dampers the benefit of adopting the technology. Reallocation of subsidies from PU toward BU could be an effective way of promoting BU technology.

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Perceived farm-level climatic impacts on coastal agricultural productivity in Bangladesh

Cited by 23 publications

References 61 publications

Determinants of Livelihood Diversification Under Environmental Change in Coastal Community of Bangladesh

Determinants of Livelihood Diversification Under Environmental Change in Coastal Community of Bangladesh

Exploring the determinants and constraints of smallholder vegetable farmers’ adaptation capacity to climate change: A case of Bogura District, Bangladesh

Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice production: the socio-economic, climatic and technological determinants of briquette urea adoption

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