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Resilient Farming in Satkhira Field Article .................................................................................... Location: Bangladesh What we know: Bangladesh is the sixth-worst extreme weather-affected country in the world, which negatively impacts agriculture, the main economic activity. What this article adds: In 2016 Solidarités International (SI) supported vulnerable farmers in Satkhira district to improve farming and livelihood resilience and disaster-risk reduction activities, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA). This involved supporting access to improved and resistant seeds; improving agricultural practices (better adapted to the micro-climate and soils); and developing integrated farming (dual-crop system). SI teams elaborated business plans with beneficiary farmers and distributed cash grants for sustainable farming enterprises. A qualitative project review found diversification of agriculture activity (reduced monoculture), more resilient crop production, greater income generation (cash crops), greater yield per land area, increased awareness and practice of sustainable farming activities and more diverse food access by households. Working with MoA agriculture extension workers is key to sustainable success. Transformation of agricultural products (e.g. mat making) provides important income-generating opportunities. Resilient seed banks may have a role in emergencies. Active communication with farmers is key to keeping them updated on current farming techniques. Context Agriculture is the main economic activity in A man shows some of the snake gourds he has produced Bangladesh, providing employment to over 45 with support from the programme, Satkhira, 2016 According to the Global Climate Risk Index 2017, Bangladesh is the sixth-worst extreme per cent of the population (Bangladesh Bureau Prince Naymuzzaman Khan weather-affected country. e frequency and of Statistics, 2015). Satkhira district is characterised intensity of climatic events such as floods, by smallholder subsistence agriculture, based on droughts and cyclones have escalated, aggravated a saline wet rice ecosystem. Farmers generally Resilient by climate variability and change. Bangladesh only cultivate Aman rice, a type of monsoon-de- is located in the largest river delta in the world pendent rice sown in June/July and harvested in and is heavily reliant on the natural tide system December/January. e rest of the year, farmers farming in for its prominent agricultural sector, particularly either leave their land fallow due to salinity prob- in the southwest coastal region. With the impact lems or they cultivate fish and/or vegetables. of climatic changes and human activity, the Households own on average between 33 and 50 Satkhira, country is experiencing dramatic environmental decimals of land (less than 0.2 hectares). is is decline, making the region extremely vulnerable insufficient for many farmers, who lease other to hazards and natural disasters. fields to extend their cultivation capabilities. Due Bangladesh to the pressures described, small farmers living Satkhira is a district in southwest Bangladesh in the coastal belt struggle to generate a decent By Emmanuelle Maisonnave and located on the bank of the Arpangachhia River. standard of living from their agricultural activities Julie Mayans In the 1960s the government constructed a net- and are compelled to adapt their practices. work of polders, embankments and drainage Emmanuelle channels in the coastal regions as defence against Intervention for resilient Maisonnave is the water intrusion and to increase agricultural pro- agricultural livelihoods Institutional Knowledge duction. Poor maintenance of sluice gates, design Solidarités International (SI) implemented dis- Building Officer at flaws and the gradual sedimentation of the aster-risk reduction (DRR) activities in Satkhira Solidarités canals have contributed to serious waterlogging district between 2010 and 2016. It supported International, where she in the Satkhira region. During the monsoon communities to identify the impacts of the main facilitates lesson excessive rainfalls inundate the land and inade- hazards and local capacities to face them, and learning within the organisation. quate drainage prolongs flooding. Great areas to collaborate on ways they could reduce these Julie Mayans is Food of land remain waterlogged for several weeks vulnerabilities. Based on risk-reduction action Security and Livelihood and sometimes even months (20 per cent of the plans (RRAPs) developed with communities at Advisor at Solidarités land was severely affected by waterlogging in the upazila (sub-district) and ward levels, it was International. She has 2015). is is aggravated by cyclones and sub- determined that specific support should be given been working in this sequent storm surges and severe droughts. High to farmers to launch resilient farming and liveli- field for over ten years. water salinity also adds to the problem, caused hoods activities, with the aim of mitigating the Her job involves by saltwater shrimp farming that requires large impact of hazards and disasters and reducing providing technical support and capacity- bodies of salt water; saltwater shrimping has their vulnerability. e aim of two projects im- building to field teams and producing occurred increasingly further inland since the plemented in Assasuni upazila1 , Satkhira district technical guidelines. 1980s, sometimes using canals constructed by (the first in 2015; the second in 2016) was to The authors would like to acknowledge the government, thereby blocking drainage and Solidarités International’s team in causing more waterlogging. All these issues 1 Specifically, these two projects were implemented in: Bangladesh for its support in reviewing the greatly affect the quality of the soil and threaten Dhandia and Nagarghata unions in Tala upazila in 2015 and case study on which this article is based. crop production. Borodal and Khajra unions in Assasuni upazila in 2016. ....................................................................................................................................... 菀 Field Article ....................................................................................................................................... List of criteria to identify nologies, inputs and techniques at field level. and prawns, which do not have the same negative Box 1 vulnerable farmers e project was implemented in Assasuni and environmental impact as the salt water shrimp Tala upazilas: Borodal, Dhandia, Khajra and previously farmed), alongside stress-resilient • Village vulnerable to disasters Nagarghata unions. A total of 390 farmers were agriculture (paddy and vegetables, such as various • Household severely affected by supported to develop integrated farming and types of gourd, pumpkin, beet, spinach, cucumber waterlogging in the past few years 1,000 households received a grant to buy seeds and potato), with different enterprises according • High level of loss of livelihood and slow or and equipment. SI’s team was made up of a to the cropping season. In rice-fish-vegetable no recovery and/or coping strategies team leader and ten community mobilisers. farming, the paddy field is le open to encourage • Low level and irregular source of income the fish to enter and swim around the paddy. (less than 5,000 BDT per month) Supporting access to improved and When water levels drop, the fish stay in the • Ownership of less than 0.5 acres of land resistant seeds ditches surrounding the rice field. e pond is • No access to adequate food sources To secure food supply in Bangladesh, the devel- used to water the vegetables growing on the • Socially vulnerable households (women and opment and use of high quality seeds that can surrounding dykes (described in Table 1). elderly headed households; households with adapt to certain unfavourable conditions (such young children, disabled persons, pregnant as waterlogging and salinity) is essential. Research Demonstration plots were created to serve women or sick persons). institutes, such as the Bangladesh Rice Research as venues to teach technologies and to demon- Institute and Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear strate differences between traditional and ‘mod- Agriculture, are continuously creating new va- ern’ techniques. ese aroused local interest help the most vulnerable households cover their rieties of stress-tolerant seeds. However, small, and contributed to the acceptance and uptake basic needs, while simultaneously laying the isolated farmers are rarely aware of the charac- of these new techniques and seeds. Beneficiaries foundations for sustainable and long-term liveli- teristics of the new varieties and which ones are with plots on their land were tasked with sharing hood recovery, thereby bridging short-term and usable on their land and lack access to markets. information with non-beneficiaries to encourage long-term humanitarian assistance. SI worked SI encouraged the use of improved seeds and dissemination further. No support was given to to enhance existing agriculture-based livelihoods facilitated access to them2 by providing cash to access markets as it was felt that sufficient by promoting adaptation strategies and mitigation vulnerable farmers. Together with AEOs and SI demand for the produce already existed. and preparedness techniques to reduce core vul- community mobilisers, beneficiaries identified nerabilities. e intention was to encourage a the stress-tolerant crops that could easily and Implementation
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