Climate Change Impact on Food Security Evidence from Agricultural Sectors in Bangladesh

Abstract

Bangladesh is known as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change due to its geographic location. Majority of the people in Bangladesh are highly dependent on agriculture-based activities and fisheries. Agriculture sectors in Bangladesh are mostly affected by climate change and emerged as biggest developmental challenge for Bangladesh. Various undesirable climate effects such as sea-level rise, increasing temperatures, enhanced precipitation, and an increase in intensity and frequency of different natural calamities will degrade agricultural sectors in Bangladesh intensely mainly by reducing production in agricultural sectors. The analysis of this paper finds that the impact of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh will result in problems with food security and may threaten the livelihood activities in near future. The rest of this paper constructs the potential impact of climate change on Agricultural sector in Bangladesh and links to the food security concern.