Climate change risks and food security in Bangladesh
Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional...
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| author | Yu, Winston Hassan, Ahmadul Alam, Mozaharul Khan Abu, Saleh Ruane, Alex Rosenzweig, Cynthia Major, David C. Thurlow, James |
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| description | Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional risks to ongoing efforts to reduce poverty. This book examines the implications of climate change on food security in Bangladesh and identifies adaptation measures in the agriculture sector using a comprehensive integrated framework. First, the most recent science available is used to characterize current climate and hydrology and its potential changes. Second, country-specific survey and biophysical data is used to derive more realistic and accurate agricultural impact functions and simulations. A range of climate risks (i.e. warmer temperatures, higher carbon dioxide concentrations, changing characteristics of floods, droughts and potential sea level rise) is considered to gain a more complete picture of potential agriculture impacts. Third, while estimating changes in production is important, economic responses may to some degree buffer against the physical losses predicted, and an assessment is made of these. Food security is dependent not only on production, but also future food requirements, income levels and commodity prices. Finally, adaptation possibilities are identified for the sector. This book is the first to combine these multiple disciplines and analytical procedures to comprehensively address these impacts. The framework will serve as a useful guide to design policy intervention strategies and investments in adaptation measures. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1520512025-04-25T18:00:59Z Climate change risks and food security in Bangladesh Yu, Winston Hassan, Ahmadul Alam, Mozaharul Khan Abu, Saleh Ruane, Alex Rosenzweig, Cynthia Major, David C. Thurlow, James crops climate change food security agricultural productivity natural disasters poverty hydrology Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional risks to ongoing efforts to reduce poverty. This book examines the implications of climate change on food security in Bangladesh and identifies adaptation measures in the agriculture sector using a comprehensive integrated framework. First, the most recent science available is used to characterize current climate and hydrology and its potential changes. Second, country-specific survey and biophysical data is used to derive more realistic and accurate agricultural impact functions and simulations. A range of climate risks (i.e. warmer temperatures, higher carbon dioxide concentrations, changing characteristics of floods, droughts and potential sea level rise) is considered to gain a more complete picture of potential agriculture impacts. Third, while estimating changes in production is important, economic responses may to some degree buffer against the physical losses predicted, and an assessment is made of these. Food security is dependent not only on production, but also future food requirements, income levels and commodity prices. Finally, adaptation possibilities are identified for the sector. This book is the first to combine these multiple disciplines and analytical procedures to comprehensively address these impacts. The framework will serve as a useful guide to design policy intervention strategies and investments in adaptation measures. 2010 2024-09-09T14:08:39Z 2024-09-09T14:08:39Z Book https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152051 en Limited Access Routledge Yu, Winston; Alam, Mozaharul; Hassan, Ahmadul; Khan, Abu Saleh; Ruane, Alex; Rosenzweig, Cynthia; Major, David; and Thurlow, James. 2010. Climate change risks and food security in Bangladesh. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849776387 |
| spellingShingle | crops climate change food security agricultural productivity natural disasters poverty hydrology Yu, Winston Hassan, Ahmadul Alam, Mozaharul Khan Abu, Saleh Ruane, Alex Rosenzweig, Cynthia Major, David C. Thurlow, James Climate change risks and food security in Bangladesh |
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| title_short | Climate change risks and food security in Bangladesh |
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