G.M. Monirul Alam

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University | BSMRU · Faculty of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development

This study revisits the influence of renewable energy intake, globalization, trade, and GDP on carbon pollution in the United States of America (USA). Although previous studies have mostly used parametric techniques, we investigate the cointegrating association between carbon dioxide emission (CO2e) and its known drivers using the non-parametric qu...

Snakes are a natural form of pest control that play an essential role in the ecosystem's balance. Snakes can provide an ecological service to people by lowering insect populations that can spread disease and harm agricultural produce. Because snakes assist us in so many ways, they have long been the subject of torture and unfavorable views across c...

Bangladesh's aquaculture sector has contributed progressively to the nation's economy over the years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has impeded fish farmers' access to markets, reduced their production and sales capacity, resulted in lower income, and increased food security vulnerability. This study assesses how COVID-19 affects smallholder fish farme...

The present study was conducted to explore the fish value chain and the determinants that influenced the fish farmer's decision, preferably in the value addition chain of Rui, Catla, Tilapia, and Pangas fish. Hence, primary data were collected from 200 fish farmers and 212 market actors from three districts of Bangladesh. The per quintal value addi...

As a result of COVID-19 spread, Bangladesh implemented a range of measures including general holidays, lockdown, no lockdown, and strict lockdown which resulted in the dramatic ups and downs of the price level of the products. This study aimed to examine the influence of COVID-19 on poultry products (meat and eggs) in Bangladesh using Gazipur-an in...

An increasing body of literature has demonstrated COVID-19's harmful impact on agri-food systems, which are a major source of livelihood for millions of people worldwide. Information and communication technology (ICT) has been playing an increasing role in enhancing agri-food systems' resilience amid COVID-19. In this study, the PRISMA approach was...

Learning the extent of price volatility is critical to ensure the producer and consumer’s economic welfare. Hence, we have envisioned assessing the price transmission relationship over time among the farmgate, wholesale, and retail markets for the four major aquaculture products, namely Rui, Catla, Tilapia and Pangas in Bangladesh. The Granger caus...

As transition areas between aquatic ecosystems and the adjacent terrestrial ones, riparian regions are highly exposed to coastal climate hazards. This article describes how climate change and extreme weather impact vulnerable riparian communities and settlements. The analysis is done by reviewing past research and empirical case studies from ripari...

Teesta river basin is one of the hazard-prone areas in Bangladesh. Flood, riverbank erosion and hailstorm are the most devastating natural hazards to agriculture in this area. Therefore, adaptation measures are obligatory to sustain the livelihood and food security of the households. This study has investigated the indigenous and institutional adap...

This study presents the damages to the agricultural sector due to various climatic hazards at the Teesta basin of Bangladesh. Survey data were collected from 276 farmers from Lalmonirhat, Rangpur and Nilphamari districts. Remote sensing maps have also been used to analyze changes in land use and river channel. The results reveal that flood is the m...

Appraisal of the long‐term precipitation trends and variability is crucial for sustainable water resources management. This research intended to evaluate Bangladesh's monthly, seasonal, and annual spatiotemporal rainfall variability using 40 global climate models (GCMs) for two representative concentration pathways (RCPs), RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. Statis...

Bangladesh is one of the countries that is most likely to be affected by natural disasters and climate change. However, much less is known about the integrated livelihood and climate vulnerabilities of coastal communities to natural disasters in southwestern Bangladesh. Therefore, this paper proposes a holistic approach to measuring livelihood vuln...

Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. In general , Char land (Riverine Island) communities are frequently affected by floods, riverbank erosion, and other climatic hazards, including drought, cyclones, tornadoes, salinity intrusion , water logging, cold waves, etc., which cause many to lose their sources...

Riparian communities in developing countries such as Bangladesh, whose livelihoods depend especially on fisheries and other subsistence activities, are under considerable pressure due to climate change. Therefore, there is a need to better understand how the dynamics of riparian communities are influenced by climate change and how its impacts can b...

The devastating impact of flooding is gradually increasing worldwide including riverine islands of Bangladesh due to climate change issue. Riverine islands and coastal communities are the primary victims due to their geographical position. The riverine islands (char) of Bangladesh are frequently flooded, necessitating context-specific flood managem...

Understanding household disaster risk perception is crucial to formulate and apply disaster risk reduction strategies. Using survey data from 300 households from three highly disaster prone areas of the lower Teesta River basin in Bangladesh, this study explores house-holds' risk perception of drought, earthquake, and flood at the local level. The...

•This study estimates economic returns to investments in rice varietal development in the Philippines and Bangladesh.•The net returns to IRRI and national partners' investments remain strongly positive.•However, the returns are decreasing at a faster rate in the Philippines (24%) than in Bangladesh (6%).•IRRI and national partners should continue i...

Coastal agriculture and livelihoods worldwide are highly vulnerable to changing climates, and Bangladesh is no exception due to its geophysical location. This paper examines rice farmers’ vulnerability, adaptation strategies, and adaptation barriers to managing climate change impacts in the coastal region of Bangladesh. Survey data were collected f...

Bangladesh is one of the most flood-prone countries in the world, resulting in significant losses of agricultural crops and other assets due to the absence of risk mitigation strategies such as flood insurance. In order to ascertain farmers' risk behavior towards flood and their willingness to pay (WTP) for flood insurance as a strategy for climate...

Bangladesh is a riverine country that is the most climate-change vulnerable country in the world. Riverbank erosion adversely affects people and their livelihoods by damaging their homesteads, agricultural land, and causing economic, social, and psychological distress over time. Under these criteria, erosion control measures/approaches are vital fo...

We are very pleased to specially invite you to contribute a chapter for the book titled ‘Responsible Business and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Towards Circular Strategies in Developing Countries’. This book is expected to be published by Palgrave Macmillan for their cross-imprint Sustainable Development Goals book series. If you are in...

Fish is a major source of food and nutritional security for subsistence communities in developing countries, it also has linkages with the economic and supply-chain dimensions of these countries. Burgeoning literature has revealed the adverse impacts of COVID-19 on the fisheries and aquaculture sector, which serves as the major source of income and...

Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world. In general, Charland (Riverine Island) communities are frequently affected by floods, riverbank erosion, 25 and other climatic hazards, which cause many to lose their sources of livelihoods and 26 2 properties and making them more vulnerable. Using survey data of 262...

Bangladesh is one of the topmost climate vulnerable countries in the world where the riverine island (char) dwellers are the most victims of climate change. Climate finance is perceived as the key instruments to address the issues related to climate change impacts and improve the livelihood resilience of the rural people. This article examines the...

The implementation of sustainable adaptation strategies (SASs) is crucial to mitigate climate change impact as well as reduce the loss of natural disasters and increase agricultural crop production. However, current policies and programs based on agricultural incentives are mostly inadequate to increase SASs practices at the farm level. Hence, a de...

Bangladesh is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries on the globe. The country is frequently affected by numerous climatic events including floods, droughts, cyclones, etc., which damages the farm household’s livelihood and socio-economic condition. Therefore, this work intends to appraise the smallholder farmers’ perceived climate-related ri...

Disaster risk perception and risk appraisal are essential in formulating an appropriate disaster risk reduction policy. This study examines the actual vs perceived drought risks by constructing risk indices at the household and expert levels using survey data from the lower Teesta River Basin in northern Bangladesh. The survey data were collected f...

A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04825-3

Bangladesh is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries globally, where the livelihood of agro-based dependent people became vulnerable due to different natural hazards, especially in the southern coastal part. This study investigates the influence of climate change on household vulnerability and income diversity, data collected from the climate...

This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience in the global south. This book covers the core of adaptation strategies in developing countries context in an easy-to-follow theoretical and empirical examples. This book shares contemporary approaches on vulnerability, adaptation strateg...

Social protection mechanisms are considered as the key tools to improve the livelihood of a community. This study explores the governance challenges and gaps of social protection mechanisms related to livelihood of riverine island (char) communities. Structural weakness and governance response were measured by analyzing policy options, implementati...

In Bangladesh, coastal farmers are highly vulnerable to various climatic hazards. This paper explores coastal rice farmers’ vulnerability, food security and adaptation strategies in response to climate change issues. Survey data were collected from 120 rice farmers from two coastal districts of Bangladesh and analyzed using descriptive statistics t...

The Teesta basin of Bangladesh experiences natural disasters every year1 that bring huge agricultural production losses. This study has developed the socio-2 economic vulnerability index (SeVI) to quantify the vulnerability of people in3 the drought-prone areas in northern Bangladesh. A total of 134 respondents were4 interviewed from Gangachara and...

Social protection mechanisms are considered as the key tools to improve1 the livelihood of a community. This study explores the governance challenges2 and gaps of social protection mechanisms related to livelihood of riverine island3 (char)communities.Structuralweaknessandgovernanceresponseweremeasuredby4 analyzing policy options, implementation an...

The coastal areas of Bangladesh are often hit by climate induced Cyclones 1 which have devastating effects on livelihood of people. The aim of the study was 2 to understand the long-term occupational effect of climate change induced cyclone 3 on farmers in the coastal area. To address the objective of the study various qualita-4 tive methods such a...

This study aims to assess the agricultural drought risk for the period of 1 1960-2011 and to identify the sustainable adaptation measures in the western part 2 of Bangladesh which is most drought-prone areas in the country. The MK test, 3 Sen's slope estimator, and ARIMA model have been applied to climatic variables 4 for detecting the trends and f...

Understanding household disaster risk perception is crucial to formulate and apply disaster risk reduction strategies. Using survey data from 300 households from three highly disaster-prone areas of the lower Teesta River basin in Bangladesh, this study explores households’ risk perception of drought, earthquake, and flood at the local-level. The o...

The fisheries and aquaculture sector plays an important role for food and nutrition security for the majority of people in Bangladesh. Recently, however, fish farmers and market actors face potential income loss due to post-harvest fish loss. This study assesses the factors influencing post-harvest loss of four important fish species (i.e., rui, ca...

Family farmers are the principal contributors to food security and nutrition, management of natural resources, rural community cohesion and cultural heritage. Food systems that are built around family farmers can offer new economic opportunities, rural urban linkages, attractive employment and synergies through a short food supply chain, which can...

Women's empowerment has a great influence on health, nutrition, education, and the overall well-being of societies as well as of the children and households. This study investigates the effect of women's empowerment on poverty reduction and focuses on household deprivation, in terms of education, health, and standard of living. Primary data was col...

This work is intended to examine the effects of Bangladesh's subtropical climate on coro-navirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) transmission. Secondary data for daily meteorological variables and COVID-19 cases from March 8 to May 31, 2020, were collected from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) and Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control a...

Farmers in the riverine char islands of Bangladesh are frequently affected by climate change due to their proximity to the river and heavy reliance on agriculture for their livelihoods. The present study evaluates char dwellers' risk perceptions and agricultural adaptations to climate change. Survey data were collected from 98 households, and focus...

Disaster risk perception, as well as risk appraisal, play a pivotal role in making the disaster risk reduction policy. This study examines the actual vs perceived drought risks by constructing risk indices at the household and expert levels using survey data from the lower Teesta River Basin in northern Bangladesh. Survey data were collected from 4...

In Bangladesh, the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have substantial effects on the livelihood of people, but smallholder vegetables growers will be even more affected because of the perishability nature of the product. The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Bangladesh on 8th March, 2020 and consequently the country went into lockdown on 26 Marc...

Bangladesh is one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries. The appraisal of household vulnerability and capacity to adapt under climate change is therefore crucial for developing effective disaster risk reduction policies. This study explored the nexus between vulnerability and capacity of rural drought-prone households using survey data o...

The article was published with a spelling error in one of the co-author names. The correct spelling is reflected in this correction, and the original work has been updated to reflect the correct spelling of the name as Md. Morshadul Hasan. The original article has been corrected.

The demand for eco-friendly food is increasing globally, including Bangladesh. This study aimed to examine the environmental consciousness and knowledge-behavior gap of young consumers regarding eco-friendly food purchasing intentions in Bangladesh. Survey data were collected from 200 young university students employing purposive random sampling me...

This study examined the pattern of price variations of major fish, livestock and poultry products in Gazipur district of Bangladesh. The secondary data on the average wholesale and retail prices of ten important commodities for a period of six years (June 2014 to June 2019) were collected from the Department of Agricultural Marketing (DAM) under th...

Considering the importance of the potentiality of leveraging big data for enhancing resilience for disaster management, this study focused on the recent technology explored by various scholars on big data-based disaster resilience which can help people in all stages of disaster management. This study reveals that disaster resilience is a combined f...

The smart city paradigm is relatively a new venue for the governance system. There is a growing debate about the role of big data on people, community, and smart city development. The aim of this study was to explore the role of big data on smart city governance in the context of sustainable urban development. A systematic literature review was emp...

Administrative resilience is a key tool to stimulate an administrative system to protect, save, and reduce livelihood vulnerability in the face of natural hazards. The main purpose of this study is to explore the potential of administrative resilience to improve livelihood resilience in the context of the vulnerable char (island) people of Banglade...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the unique aspects of Islamic finance and its role in economic development. It also explores the suitability of Islamic finance in China. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the potential of Islamic banking and finance for economic sustainability in China. This study adopts the content ana...

This study is aimed to analyses how the impacts of climate change particularly drought is already jeopardising the livelihood and food security of rural households and their associated response strategies in severely drought-prone areas of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is considered as most vulnerable to climate change due to its disaster-prone geographic location. However, people living in the riverine areas are more vulnerable to riverbank erosion and other climate-induced hazards, which may have persistent effects on their livelihood and food security. This paper explores household food security vul...

The concepts of vulnerability and resilience are gaining popularity in the development literature but still lack conceptual integration with the theory and practices of livelihood dynamics. However, the livelihood system of a community is a key element of the social system which may frequently be disrupted by the ecological, financial, natural and...

This paper examines the impacts of climate-induced hazards, especially riverbank erosion, on livelihoods and food security, and the ways in which susceptible households respond. The study uses survey data collected from 380 riverbank erosion-prone rural households in Bangladesh, along with data from focus group discussions involving household heads...

Cashew nut and coffee which are high value crops are producing in adequate quantities in both Ruma and Thanchi of Bandarban district by different ethnic communities. However, due to poor knowledge on processing and packaging techniques coupled with poor market linkages limit their potential of commercialization. FAO has been launched a project on ‘...

In the face of global environmental change, the notion of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) has emerged as an approach which can contribute to increase agricultural production and income of poor households. This paper explores the suitability of adopting CSA practices for promoting sustainable agriculture in order to attain global food and nutritiona...

Technological integration in learning and education is an inevitable part of the ever-changing technological world. Leveraging technology is an essential part of every learning mode. While digital technology is increasing common in schools and classrooms, finding ways to improve its impact on student learning remains a challenge for researchers and...

Improving rural household health condition which is a crucial enabler for efficient farm and non-farm activities and determines individuals’ and households’ ability to achieve their livelihood objectives has been received relatively less policy importance. This study examines the determinants of household food security. It also focuses on the impac...

Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. In particular, its riverine-island (char) dwellers face continuous riverbank erosion, frequent flooding, and other adverse effects of climate change that increase their vulnerability. This paper aims to assess the livelihood vulnerability of riverine communities by applying the In...

In the face of global environmental change, the notion of climate smart agriculture (CSA) has emerged as an approach which can contribute to increased agricultural production and income of poor households. This paper explores the suitability of adopting CSA practices for promoting sustainable agriculture in order to attain global food and nutrition...

Developing countries are experiencing rapid and unguided urbanization which may contribute to increase poverty. Managing rapid urbanization is crucial for sustainable development. The main purpose of this article is to explore the determinants, trend and status of urbanization and counter-urbanization in South Asia. The effects of urbanization and...

Understanding the factors that shape resource-poor households’ heterogeneity in adopting adaptation strategies is crucial to reduce vulnerability. This paper employs a logit model to analyse factors that influence household adaptation choices and the barriers to adaptation by using the survey data of riverbank erosion-prone rural households in Bang...

The global farming communities have already experienced the impact of climate change in a range of ways and made their adaptation decision. Adaptation is, however, context-specific and varies across and within countries, which warrants location specific research. This chapter presents the strategies and barriers to adaptation of hazards-prone rural...

Access to information and communication technology (ICT) has been considered crucial to alleviate poverty and improve food security of rural households. The mobile phone is an ICT that is widely used by rural households in developing countries. This study examines the determinants of mobile phone adoption using survey data of vulnerable rural house...