Climate Change is an emerging concern for Bangladesh and people from the coastal communities are facing the brunt of its unprecedented impact.
The coastal morphology and spatial distribution of Bangladesh influences the impact of natural hazards. Especially, in the south–western area, natural hazards increase the vulnerability of the coastal communities and relaxed down the process of economic and social developments. Due to the unusual climatic behavior and change in recent years, people in coastal areas face serious vulnerability, especially in the context of human settlements and consequently move out to the cities to combat the situation.
The Fishermen and the farmers are the most vulnerable against their livelihood. Cyclone, tidal surge, irrespective rainfall, salinity are the most prominent natural hazards here in the locality. Food security and nutrition for the coastal community is a key challenge here. Actually agriculture related all sectors are facing challenges because of salinity, irregular crop calendar and seasonal variation. Sanitation, fresh water facilities, power distribution, education and training, fuel consumption are some other challenges to be overcome in the remote areas in different Unions among the communities.
Let us discuss about the recommendations,
- Integrated Farm Planning Management would be a goal oriented activities to run livelihood, to ensure food security, nutrition and agro based marketing for solvency. FFF Model is a good one to follow; it means Fish, Fruit, Forest model. Now the model turns to VFFF model where V means Vegetables. Livestock raring would be the addition to this model too.
- Engineered measurements like Infrastructure development is the key, Non- engineered measurement like education, innovation, research, training, knowledge sharing are the others activities to do. Community participation is the key to decision making and result-oriented activities,
- GO, NGO, stakeholders, community partnership and coordination to reach the project goal. Monitoring, supervision and evaluation are the key activities to judge the project activities among the communities. Long-term sustainable planning is also important to get the better outcome of the project.
Coping strategies are important to save coastal communities from their vulnerability to climate change.
