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Accepted Paper:

Climate Change and Disaster Resilience: Traditional Farming in Rural Bangladesh  
Abantee Harun (University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh)

Paper short abstract:

The paper examines the immense potentials of traditional farming that farmers have revived in their quest to stabilize increasingly fragile livelihood systems and their struggle to survive recurrent disaster shocks and climate change in rural Bangladesh.

Paper long abstract:

Bangladesh, an ancient agricultural land and one of the most vulnerable countries of climate change, is highly susceptible to floods, cyclones, tornadoes, droughts, salinity, fire, earthquakes, landslides, riverbank erosion, insecticides and other hazards. Poor people suffer most from these hazards, because of their high base vulnerabilities and over-exposure to natural hazards. People survive, mostly without outside intervention, under conditions that are often critical and fragile. For centuries, people have succeeded in overcoming adversity and have managed many challenges to their livelihood through their traditional knowledge and skills. In the daily struggle of life, indigenous knowledge and coping strategies have become a key to survival. In recent years, because of successive crop failures and the significant erosion of livelihood support systems resulting from climate change, rural farmers revived traditional farmings to encounter climate change and disaster impacts. With several case studies of traditional farming from rural Bangladesh, the paper probes into aspects of local resilience, capacities and traditional coping strategies.

Panel P43
Community-led conservation of traditional crops and knowledge co-production in response to a changing climate: Case studies from South Asia
  Session 1