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Bangladesh is known for its vulnerability to climate change and more specifically to natural disasters. It is important to mention the fact that the location of the country is vulnerable for the presence for three powerful rivers, Asian rivers, Brahmaputra, Ganges and the Meghna along with their numerous tributaries that could result massive floods.
Agriculture in Southern Africa was also adversely affected by drought after climate change intensified the effects of 2014–2016 El Niño event. [ 5 ] : 724 In Europe , between 1950 and 2019, heat extremes have become more frequent and also more likely to occur consecutively, while cold extremes have declined.
[3]: 1491 In India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, around 56%, 43% and 50% of the population work in agriculture, respectively. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Even so, 11.4% of Asia's population (515 million people) were undernourished in 2017, which is the largest fraction in the world.
Agriculture is the largest employment sector in Bangladesh, making up 14.2 percent of Bangladesh's GDP in 2017 and employing about 42.7 percent of the workforce. [1] As of the financial year 2022 to 2023, the agricultural sector contributed to more than 12% of GDP. [ 2 ]
Drought stress. Currently, half of the production area in the U.S. for cotton crops is experiencing drought, as is 43% of rice producing areas, 78% of sorghum, and 53% of winter wheat, according ...
Climate change in Bangladesh is expected to have an impact on the Dhaka River System water quality, with increased monsoon flows and lower summer flows. However, these changes will not greatly affect the extremes of water quality to any great extent due to the overwhelming impact of pollutant discharges into the system. [20]
A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions. [1]: 1157 A drought can last for days, months or years.Drought often has large impacts on the ecosystems and agriculture of affected regions, and causes harm to the local economy.
From April to July, Bangladesh was hit by heavy rainfall and a series of devastating floods along the Brahmaputra river, with notably destructive incidents in May, July; [3] the ability of the rice crops to survive this was reduced by the growing monoculture of high-yielding varieties (HYV) of rice. In addition, neighbouring India declined to ...