Present Status and Prospects of Climate Smart Village in Bangladesh

By
*Md. Mahfuzar Rahman
**Reg. 19-10162

Abstract
The purpose of this study is to prioritize and select the vulnerable area based on
different level of administrative units targeted towards the agriculture sector and in the
context of climate change. It is expected that it will help to develop a climate smart
village model in Bangladesh. For scaling up climate smart intervention options in
village level, the present study anticipated some intervention options that fit to
specific hazard prone region. It has been found that homestead gardening and
embankment/roadside afforestation activities are climate smart interventions for all
the hazard prone regions for agricultural land, soil, crop production system and
ecosystem. Re-excavation of khal for ground water re-charge in drought, saline, river
flood and flash flood prone region and mini-pond construction in all the hazard prone
regions are identified as the climate smart interventions in water sector. Solar and
electric pump are considered climate smart interventions in terms of less energy
consumption. Building of embankment of river, mechanization of farm (Tractor),
green/Organic manure, homestead gardening of BARI model, khal re-excavation,
Mini-pond construction, use of Leaf Color Chart (LCC) and zero tillage with
mulching are identified as the climate smart interventions in agricultural crop
production system and nutrition efficiency.
Key words: Climate Smart village, Vulnerable, Drought, Flash flood, Saline,
Afforestation, Homestead gardening, Khal r-excavation climate smart interventions

*A seminar paper presented by Md. Mahfuzar Rahman for the partial fulfillment of MS
degree
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Reg. 19-10162