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.
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.
