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An Overview of Drought Hazards and Prospective Mitigation Approach in Bangladesh

M. A. Rakib
Department of Disaster Management, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh.

M. S. Akter
Department of Statistics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Mehjabin Elahi
Department of Geography and Environment, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

M. Ali
Department of Civil Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh.

Md. Babul Hossain
Department of Zoology, Rangpur Government College, Rangpur, Bangladesh.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

Drought is the most formidable disaster frequently reoccurring in most regions of Bangladesh. It is a natural slow onset hazard which evolves unnoticed and enhancing due to the onslaught of global climate change. It is characterized with the long periods of dryness and shortage of water supply cumulatively impacting adversely on the socioeconomic development of the people and their properties. It is also defined as atmospheric / meteorological, hydrological and agricultural conditions which are closely related, in which meteorological is the source of the rest. Long term instability of temperature and rainfall pattern leads to local and regional drought hazards which impact productive sector failure and worsen socio-economic status. Agricultural activities which are the foundations of the socioeconomic aspect of Bangladesh suffer the impacts of drought most. It is due to the absence of solid understanding of the causes of drought in Bangladesh, the impacts of drought on the agriculture and socioeconomic life of Bangladesh, and the available of opportunities which could have been exploited to obtain mitigation of the adverse impacts of drought in Bangladesh and in similar conditions elsewhere. This study dwelt on the causes and impacts of drought on the agriculture and socioeconomic life of Bangladesh, and the opportunities which could be exploited to obtain their most effective mitigation and adaptation to. Aim is to minimize the impact of drought for enhanced sustainability of growth in the agricultural sector and socioeconomic life of Bangladesh and other countries in similar conditions.

Keywords: Drought hazards; Temperature, Rainfall; Social crisis; Mitigation measure and Sustainable development.

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Program Area: Risk Management in Agriculture

Non-commodity: Adoption and mitigation technology, Drought

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To dwelt on the causes and impacts of drought on the agriculture and socioeconomic life of Bangladesh
To find out the opportunities which could be exploited to obtain their most effective mitigation and adaptation
To minimize the impact of drought for enhanced sustainability of growth in the agricultural sector and socioeconomic life of Bangladesh and other countries in similar conditions.

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The primary data were collected from the people of local communities, who assisted in the build-up the understanding of drought and its impacts on agriculture and the social economic life of the people who helped with references on drought events in Bangladesh. The secondary information were collected from Institute of Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), World Bank Bangladesh, National Drought Mitigation Center, The Daily Star (News paper), and Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) with many other different sources of journal and published materials.

Source of Information: Advances in Research, 5 (6): 1-16, 2015, Article no.AIR.19233, ISSN: 2348-0394

Article Link (Online Journal): https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi14NDpnNjKAhUOxI4KHfA3CYYQFgg0MAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsciencedomain.org%2Fdownload%2FMTEzNTVAQHBm&usg=AFQjCNGXdxyYdkxU4NHNZl0xfREOewQvFA&sig2=8gAqKSyvrBHNrU8DmZaQZQ

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Achievement/Findings:

Drought hazards are ultimate consequences of climate change which has been evolving through unevenly changes of climatic variables. Its pervasiveness’s such as intensity and magnitude are not same. The severity of the climatic hazards is dependent on direct and indirect factors that are always inducing change and augmenting negative derivatives of climate change. Its discontinuation and anomalous changing pattern indicate to long term instability of the climatic controlling variables such as temperature. It might be brought to global change whereas the anthropogenic input always adding into the atmosphere would be enough to induce devastating disasters. In Bangladesh, drought is frequently experienced at regional scale or extensively depending on cause and time. And, the main agriculture founded component of the national economy is already on downward trends due to continuous losses in agriculture productivity. Simultaneously, water and land use patterns have been identified as vulnerable components in the gearing up of social status with enhanced socioeconomic growth which is already on backward trends. So, the negative consequences tend to expedite temperature and rainfall uncertainty, agricultural damage, worsen socioeconomic condition, social and food insecurity. To make balance among the social components it is very important to take some initiative at the national and international levels for accelerating the existing ways of development. On the observational status, it is possible to make some efforts in the mitigation purpose at local scale and obtain balance of agriculture productivity and local agricultural demands. The combined approach includes maintenance of water and land use management for achieving sustainability in the agricultural sector and overall socioeconomic development. It is also important to fulfill the sub-categorical aspects of the three key elements fit on the drought mitigation model to achieve sustainable development. All measures which are mitigation of drought events for sustainability in the agricultural sector should be given consideration.

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