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1 Islam, A. R. Md. T.; Shill, B. K.; Salam, R.; Siddik, Md. N. A.; Patwary, M. A. 2020. Insight into farmers’ agricultural adaptive strategy to climate change in northern Bangladesh. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 26p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00681-6]
Climate change adaptation ; Farmers ; Strategies ; Agriculture ; Pesticide application ; Financing ; Loans ; Socioeconomic environment ; Policies ; Households ; Models / Bangladesh / Taraganj / Debiganj
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049588)
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Adaptation is an emerging issue to control the threatening consequences of climate change in the agricultural sector particularly. The present study aimed to identify the adopted strategies by the farmers and contributing factors that affected the adaptation strategies in the northern region of Bangladesh. The quantitative and qualitative methods were adopted to analyze the collected data through an authoritative purposive sampling technique and finally interpreted and discussed. The results of adaption strategies showed different variations on pesticides usage. The probit model indicated that age, education, the cultivated area in an acre, housing pattern, perception on climate change and meal per day influence the farmers to triggers an adaptive strategy. The results of the binary logit model are also consistent with the probit model findings. The multi-nominal logit model indicated that age, sex, total cultivated area, and perception of climate change have negatively influenced to adopt strategy 2 (use pesticides), while age, family size and perception of climate change have positively influenced the farmers to adopt strategy 5 (use pesticides + take financial loan). As the farmers in these regions are highly dependent on traditional farming practices, thus, this study suggests that the combinations of the farmers’ indigenous knowledge with well-developed methodical adaptive measures are required to improve the socioeconomic livelihood of the farmers in the northern part of Bangladesh.
2 Biswas, T.; Pal, S. C.; Chowdhuri, I.; Ruidas, D.; Saha, A.; Islam, A. R. Md. T.; Shit, M. 2023. Effects of elevated arsenic and nitrate concentrations on groundwater resources in Deltaic Region of Sundarban Ramsar Site, Indo-Bangladesh Region. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 188:114618. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114618]
Groundwater ; Water resources ; Arsenic ; Nitrates ; Health hazards ; Drinking water ; Water quality ; Vulnerability ; Models / India / Bangladesh / Sundarban Ramsar Site
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051695)
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An attempt has been adopted to predict the As and NO3- concentration in groundwater (GW) in fast-growing coastal Ramsar region in eastern India. This study is focused to evaluate the As and NO3- vulnerable areas of coastal belts of the Indo-Bangladesh Ramsar site a hydro-geostrategic region of the world by using advanced ensemble ML techniques including NB-RF, NB-SVM and NB-Bagging. A total of 199 samples were collected from the entire study area for utilizing the 12 GWQ conditioning factors. The predicted results are certified that NB-Bagging the most suitable and preferable model in this current research. The vulnerability of As and NO3- concentration shows that most of the areas are highly vulnerable to As and low to moderately vulnerable to NO3. The reliable findings of this present study will help the management authorities and policymakers in taking preventive measures in reducing the vulnerability of water resources and corresponding health risks.
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