Experts and environmentalists at a workshop in the city have suggested regional combined effort to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change for ensuring food security in the South Asia region.
They said the regional food production would face a great threat in the coming days due to global warming and only the combined efforts involving governments, NGOs and forums like SAARC might address the emerging food crisis in the region.
Practical Action, Bangladesh, and the Consumer Unity and Trust Society International, India jointly organised the regional workshop on 'Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia' at BRAC Inn auditorium in the city Monday morning.
Chaired by eminent environmentalist Atiq Rahman, the workshop was addressed, among others, by BIDS research director Assaduzzaman, project director of World Wide Fund for Nature in India Sumit Roy, executive director of Centre for Environment and Development, Sri Lanka Uchita de Zoysa and senior program officer of South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment in Nepal Parash Kharel.
Atiq Rahman in his presidential address put emphasis on taking adaptation and mitigation programmes to cope with the adverse impacts of climate change in the South Asia region.
Defining adaptation, he said there are four levels of adaptation — people, ecosystem, institution and private entrepreneurs based. Adaptation must be taken at all levels to address the problems of climate change.
He suggested taking different adaptation programmes considering the vulnerability of different locations. 'The vulnerabilities of Rajasthan desert in India, the Himalayans belt, and flood prone area and coastal region of Bangladesh will not be the same. So, different adaptation programs would have to be taken,' he said.
Atiq Rahman, executive director of Bangladesh Centre for Advance Studies, said the climate change posed threat to food production and the less food production poses threat to the food security.
Source : New Age
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