Green Stocks to Remove Food Vulnerability

Enhancing agro-based economy in Bangladesh is deadly needed to eradicate the food insecurity and consequent vulnerability, especially at monga-prone and costal region.

As the manifestation of climate change has serious impact on grain production, we should increase local investment on agricultural farm production. But due to limited access of institutional credit (both BFI’s and NBFI’s) for SME sector related to agricultural production, government (ICB) should issues green stocks and mutual fund to raise capital to provide local agro-investment. It can promote food security and price correction of stock market as well.

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Our earth are said to go vulnerable due to unanticipated adverse impact of seasonal climate variability, man-made changes and extrajudicial recourse extraction. Evidently, the aftermath of climate change manifests itself in all of its dimensions, which have serious ecological and economic consequences, including losses of biodiversity and poverty, which presumably continues in perpetuity.

To eliminate these primordial impacts, it should be clarify young people’s awareness about climate change addressing environmental and ecological impact nexus that make targeted people well-informed and climate savvy. A sustainable agreement of COP15 subsequently increases competency and ability to accommodate with regulations.

Integral risk factors to seasonal food vulnerability

At North-Western region of Bangladesh seasonal scarcity of employment occurred during the locally lean period from mid September to mid November; and in this context, household’s per capita income falls and limited access to food grains diffuses over rural poor and landless as well as marginally land-owning families, concentrated in greater Rangpur (Kurigram, Gaibanda, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat) and some part of Jamalpur district due to the incidence of extreme poor, lack of income and consumption resources as well.

Even if Bangladesh has made impressive attainments in ensuring food availability during the last three decades, even so, over 60 million people are said to go hungry every day. Significant intra-household disparity and discrimination in food also exists, especially in environmentally, economically vulnerable northern domain of Bangladesh, situated in Tista and Jamuna basin that are known to be monga prone.

Climate-risk to food vulnerability
Apart from food scarcity, flood as climate-risk it causes, it also is a significant contributor of monga. It is said, with some degree of econometric estimation;
unanticipated flood and river bank erosion manifests itself in all of its magnitudes, reducing the ability to withstand that prolong the recovery from entire poverty circle. Increment of medical and health expenditure for seasonal climate variability and lack of health service become as a primal portion of non-food expenditure. High payback of borrowed money with high interest rate from local Mohazan reduces the ability of buying food. All these inexplicit risk factors regarding climate change pertained to integral risk factors.

Intensifying pre-crisis coping strategies of seasonal food vulnerability in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has made impressive achievements in ensuring food availability during the last three decades. Even so, over 60 million people are said to go hungry every day. Significant intra-household disparity and discrimination in food also exist especially in the environmentally and economically vulnerable northern region of Bangladesh, situated in between the Teesta and the Jamuna basin that are known to be 'monga' prone.

Monga is seasonal scarcity of employment during the locally lean period from mid-September to mid-November. During this period the per capita income falls and leads to scarcity of food amongst mainly rural poor, landless as well as marginally land-owning families, concentrated mainly in greater Rangpur (Kurigram, Gaibanda, Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat) and some parts of Jamalpur district.

The Bangladesh Poverty Map, a research conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) and World Bank (WB) in collaboration with the Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) unit of the UNWFP, is an attempt to estimate poverty at lower administrative level. It is intended to enable economic analysts and policymakers to recognize regional geo-economic inequality. It focused on the percentage of poor (upper poverty line) and extremely poor (lower poverty line). This found Fulchhari (60.00% & 42.70%), Char Rajibpur (73.90% & 58.80%), Hatiabanda (56.50% & 36.90%) and Dimla (75.70% & 61.50%) are the most poverty-stricken chars and flood affected mainlands of Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari districts respectively. Thus nearly three million people of the greater Rangpur and Dinajpur region who are chronically (extremely poor) poor are caught in such a cruel trap of poverty.


Food insecurity and consequent vulnerability, in terms of basic four-fold FAO concepts -- availability, access,