report - situation assessment report in s-w coastal region of bangladesh - 2009
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The present study is an integral part of the “Livelihood Adaptation to Climate Change (LACC)Project”, a subcomponent of the national “Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme(CDMP)”, funded by UNDP, DFID and the EU. The project, being implemented by the Department ofAgricultural Extension, MoA, with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization, UN,aims to strengthen disaster risk reduction management and climate change adaptation capacities forsustainable livelihoods and food security in agriculture (the rural sectors including crops, livestock,fisheries and forestry) and other key factors of rural livelihoods in the drought prone and coastalregions of Bangladesh.The study is composed of a livelihood systems assessment, a vulnerable groups profiling and a studyon livelihood adaptation practices and technologies to climate hazard and long-term climate change inthe coastal regions of south-western Bangladesh. The study has been carried out in four selectedupazilas - Dacope, Terokhada, Bhandaria and Nazirpur – of two districts: Khulna and Pirojpur.The specific