Study Data from University of Hamburg Update Understanding of Climate Change (Impact of Climate Change on Cotton Production in Bangladesh)

2021 JAN 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on climate change. According to news reporting out of Hamburg, Germany, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Bangladesh produces only 5% of the cotton she needs to sustain her readymade garments industries.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from University of Hamburg: “The country has very limited agricultural land and cotton competes with other crops for this scarce land resource. On top of that, Bangladesh is regarded as a country where agriculture is highly vulnerable to the variabilities of weather patterns that result from climate change. Against this backdrop, to better understand the potential for the sustainable expansion of cotton production in Bangladesh, we examine cotton’s agricultural value chain and projected climate risks associated with different phases of the chain. We identified associated stakeholders at different phases of cotton production, engaged with them to understand climatic and non-climatic threats and developed an integrated set of recommendations for climate-risk management through improving the connection of producers to markets, increasing economic returns to small farmers, and improving efficiency along the value chain. We discussed our estimated climate projections with stakeholders to understand the challenges at different stages of production and marketing, and together explored and identified probable solutions.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This research offers a new and evolving approach to assess climate change impact on agriculture utilizing a holistic approach, which could be adopted for other crops.”

For more information on this research see: Impact of Climate Change on Cotton Production in Bangladesh. Sustainability, 2021,13(574):574. (Sustainability - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability). The publisher for Sustainability is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020574.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Md Nadiruzzaman, CLISEC Research Group, Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. Additional authors for this research include Mahjabeen Rahman, Uma Pal, Simon Croxton, Md Bazlur Rashid, Aditya Bahadur, Saleemul Huq.

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