Impact of climate change on cotton production in Bangladesh

Bangladesh produces only 5% of the cotton she needs to sustain her readymade garments industries. The country has very limited agricultural land and cotton competes with other crops for this scarce land resource. On top of that, Bangladesh is regarded as a country where agriculture is highly vulnera...

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Autores principales: Nadiruzzaman, Md, Rahman, Mahjabeen, Pal, Uma, Croxton, Simon, Rashid, Md Bazlur, Bahadur, Aditya, Huq, Saleemul
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164363
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author Nadiruzzaman, Md
Rahman, Mahjabeen
Pal, Uma
Croxton, Simon
Rashid, Md Bazlur
Bahadur, Aditya
Huq, Saleemul
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Croxton, Simon
Huq, Saleemul
Nadiruzzaman, Md
Pal, Uma
Rahman, Mahjabeen
Rashid, Md Bazlur
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Rahman, Mahjabeen
Pal, Uma
Croxton, Simon
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Huq, Saleemul
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description Bangladesh produces only 5% of the cotton she needs to sustain her readymade garments industries. The country has very limited agricultural land and cotton competes with other crops for this scarce land resource. On top of that, Bangladesh is regarded as a country where agriculture is highly vulnerable to the variabilities of weather patterns that result from climate change. Against this backdrop, to better understand the potential for the sustainable expansion of cotton production in Bangladesh, we examine cotton’s agricultural value chain and projected climate risks associated with different phases of the chain. We identified associated stakeholders at different phases of cotton production, engaged with them to understand climatic and non-climatic threats and developed an integrated set of recommendations for climate-risk management through improving the connection of producers to markets, increasing economic returns to small farmers, and improving efficiency along the value chain. We discussed our estimated climate projections with stakeholders to understand the challenges at different stages of production and marketing, and together explored and identified probable solutions. This research offers a new and evolving approach to assess climate change impact on agriculture utilizing a holistic approach, which could be adopted for other crops.
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spelling CGSpace1643632025-02-19T14:26:37Z Impact of climate change on cotton production in Bangladesh Nadiruzzaman, Md Rahman, Mahjabeen Pal, Uma Croxton, Simon Rashid, Md Bazlur Bahadur, Aditya Huq, Saleemul geography planning and development management monitoring policy and law renewable energy sustainability and the environment Bangladesh produces only 5% of the cotton she needs to sustain her readymade garments industries. The country has very limited agricultural land and cotton competes with other crops for this scarce land resource. On top of that, Bangladesh is regarded as a country where agriculture is highly vulnerable to the variabilities of weather patterns that result from climate change. Against this backdrop, to better understand the potential for the sustainable expansion of cotton production in Bangladesh, we examine cotton’s agricultural value chain and projected climate risks associated with different phases of the chain. We identified associated stakeholders at different phases of cotton production, engaged with them to understand climatic and non-climatic threats and developed an integrated set of recommendations for climate-risk management through improving the connection of producers to markets, increasing economic returns to small farmers, and improving efficiency along the value chain. We discussed our estimated climate projections with stakeholders to understand the challenges at different stages of production and marketing, and together explored and identified probable solutions. This research offers a new and evolving approach to assess climate change impact on agriculture utilizing a holistic approach, which could be adopted for other crops. 2021-01-09 2024-12-19T12:53:46Z 2024-12-19T12:53:46Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164363 en Open Access MDPI Nadiruzzaman, Md; Rahman, Mahjabeen; Pal, Uma; Croxton, Simon; Rashid, Md Bazlur; Bahadur, Aditya and Huq, Saleemul. 2021. Impact of climate change on cotton production in Bangladesh. Sustainability, Volume 13 no. 2 p. 574
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planning and development management
monitoring
policy and law renewable energy
sustainability and the environment
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Rahman, Mahjabeen
Pal, Uma
Croxton, Simon
Rashid, Md Bazlur
Bahadur, Aditya
Huq, Saleemul
Impact of climate change on cotton production in Bangladesh
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topic geography
planning and development management
monitoring
policy and law renewable energy
sustainability and the environment
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164363
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