Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Environment and Ecology Research, cilt.11, sa.2, ss.274-283, 2023 (Scopus)
Bangladesh’s environment and climate have
changed a lot and Bangladesh has converted as the most
exposed country. This vulnerability is exposed in adverse
way in Bangladesh due to magnitude of changing climate.
It can be said that for national food security, respective
agricultural household should adapt to climate change. A
large portion of inhabitants of Bangladesh are dependent
on agriculture for their needs, living, income and
maintenance, and most importantly economic growth also
depends on agriculture. To adapt to climate vulnerability,
farmers may face many challenges. In this regard, the first
motto was to perceive the level of challenges faced in
agriculture such as unpredictable weather, excess cost of
inputs, restricted access to agricultural markets, etc. during
production. For fulfilling this specific objective, adoption
of resilience indices to agriculture were developed. Those
adoption resilience indices were making hurdles for
farmer’s livelihood and adjustment due to climate change.
The adoption resilience indices were calculated through the
principal confrontation matrix, and it was found that
“unpredictable weather” ranked as number one followed
by the high cost of farm inputs. Another objective of this
exploration was to explore how those adaptation resilience
indices affect farmers’ enthusiasm for their adaptation. To
fulfil this objective, the ordered logit model had been used
using 378 boro cultivator’s data which were collected from
selected ‘haor’ (lowland) in Sylhet. The results show that
the two variables namely “Changed in crop varieties” and
“Changed crop to livestock” had a positive impact on the
farmers’ adapting strategies for changing climate. That
means, those farmers were easily motivated to change their
crop varieties and preferred rearing livestock during flood.