FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR IMPLEMENTING CLIMATE SMART VILLAGE FOR BANGLADESH

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Sri Lanka, under the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has taken an initiative during 2014 with the support from Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) to carry out a feasibility study for implementing climate- smart village in Bangladesh. The purpose of this study is to prioritize and select the vulnerable area based on different level of administrative units (districts, upazilas, unions and mouzas) targeted towards the agriculture sector and in the context of climate change. It is expected that it will help to develop a climate smart village model in Bangladesh. For scaling up climate smart intervention options in village level, the present study anticipated some interventions options that fit to specific hazard prone region (as mentioned Intervention options from survey and mini-workshops section). It has been found that homestead and embankment/roadside afforestation activities are climate smart intervention for all the hazard prone regions for agricultural land, soil, crop production system and ecosystem. Re-excavation of khal for ground water re- charge in drought, saline, river flood and flash flood prone region and mini-pond construction in all the hazard prone regions are identified as the climate smart intervention in water sector. Solar and electric pump are considered climate smart interventions in terms of less energy consumption. Embankment, mechanization of farm (Tractor), green/Organic manure, homestead gardening of BARI model, khal re-excavation, Mini-pond construction, use of Leaf Colour Chart (LCC) and zero tillage with mulching are identified as the climate smart interventions in agricultural crop production system and nutrition efficiency. Hazard zone wise scaling up and scaling out plan out plan also suggested for developed climate smart village in Bangladesh..