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CLIMATE RESILIENT DISASTER VULNERABLE LIVELIHOOD ADAPTATIONS IN COASTAL BANGLADESH (Pages : 87 - 93)

Studies were conducted on climate resilient disaster vulnerable livelihood adaptations in coastal Bangladesh. With the objectives of identifying the ways to reduce vulnerability of coastal communities to the impacts of climate change-induced risks; and to know the technological factors of Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation (CBACC-CF); assessing the present interventions as to its livelihood improvement. The study was conducted using Participatory Rural (PRA) and Focus Group Discussion using pre-tested guidelines. Venn diagram Analysis of Hazards were done. The study covered 4 coastal Barguna, Bhola, Noakhali, and Chittagong districts. The results indicated that daily labour on animal and crop cultivation were the main sector of livelihood being 28.14 per cent as highest, followed by about 22 per cent for fishing sector. It was previously reported that small business and local services were more dominant in the area due to migration of free lancer labour, but the present finding reveal that now the employment scopes are increasing due to transfer of agro-technologies in the areas. Unprecedented hazard events such as heavy rainfall cause damage of harvestable crops and remains increasing risk to any further cropping. Soil salinity does not favor for rice cropping as it grew up from November till the onset monsoon. The highest numbers of agriculture day labors are engaged to Aman rice cultivation and harvesting time Two paddy crops (Aman rice and Boro rice) are currently cultivated for local rice demand throughout a year. Fishing activities is considerably found from the mid of July till December. Day labour and fishing significantly varied which may be due to the availability of disaster adapting crop technologies and characteristics of the water bodies. The adaptation status of study areas were found to be highly sensitive to tropical cyclone, storm surge, rainfall and high tide. Natural resource endowment in the area comprisesDownload