Climate change and farm-level adaptation decisions and strategies in drought-prone and groundwater-depleted areas of Bangladesh: an empirical investigation

Mohammad Alauddin () and Md Abdur Rashid Sarker

Ecological Economics, 2014, vol. 106, issue C, 204-213

Abstract: Despite recognizing the vulnerability of Bangladesh's agriculture to climate change, the existing literature pays limited attention to a rigorous, quantitative analysis of farm-level data to investigate rice farmers' preferred adaptation strategies, perceived barriers, and policy implications. By employing data from 1800 Bangladeshi farm-households in eight drought-prone and groundwater-depleted districts of three climatic zones and logit models, this study breaks new ground in investigating farm-level adaptation to climate change.

Keywords: Climate change; Drought severity; Groundwater depletion; Adaptation barriers; Resource-depleting adaptation; Science-driven adaptation; Enabling environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 Q0 Q12 Q2 Q25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.07.025

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