Climate change and food security in Northern Bangladesh: experience of RDRS in implementing Stress Tolerant rice
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2017-07Publisher
BARC UniversityAuthor
Obayed, Joynub NabilaMetadata
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Nowadays climate change has become a big issue worldwide. Every country and each person is
concerned about climate change. It is a fear to face mega disasters in future due to climate
change and that is why almost all the countries are taking mitigation actions and plans to fight
and survive the severity of disasters. In Bangladesh, Government, NGOs and other different
types of organizations are taking various initiatives to face the current and future threats of
climate change. In the course of changing climate the food security issue is a very important
aspect to deal with. Whatever the disaster occurs, to keep people live food should be ensured first
and foremost because without food people cannot live. As a mitigation option for climate change
and Disaster Risk Reduction food security should be first condition.
The objective of this paper is to find out the implementation and impact of Stress Tolerant Rice
in 8 districts of Rangpur Division within the working area of RDRS Bangladesh to ensure food
security as a mitigation option for climate change. In this paper two variety of stress tolerant rice
will be discussed which are Flood Tolerant Rice and Draught Tolerant Rice. The field area for
this research will be within working areas of RDRS Bangladesh; Lalmonithat, Kurigram,
Dinajpur Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Rangpur, Nilphamari and Gaibandha of Rangpur Division.
All the data for this paper has been collected from Field visits in RDRS working areas, reports
and case studies collected from related staff, books and internet.