Riverbank erosion is one of the most unpredictable and critical type of disasters that takes into account the quantity of rainfall, soil structure, river morphology, topography of river and adjacent areas, and floods. Such calamity took tolls less in lives but more in livelihood as agricultural land and homesteads along with other livelihood options that are evacuated. The study was conducted in the most vulnerable regions of Bangladesh due to riverbank erosion. The study tried to find out the effects of riverbank erosion on livelihood and its associated displacement.

This study is a part of "Regenerative Agriculture and Sustainable Livelihoods for Vulnerable Ecosystems" (RESOLVE) programme, which intends to explore the magnitude and impacts of different natural hazards namely flood, riverbank erosion, salinity intrusion, water scarcity in livelihood system, more particularly agriculture in project districts. The study relies on local people’s perception and understanding on climate change impacts in agriculture.

The prevalence of malnutrition in Bangladesh is one of the highest in the world. Millions of children and women suffer from one or more forms of malnutrition including low birth weight, wasting, stunting, underweight etc. Today, malnutrition not only affects individuals but its effects are passed from one generation to the next as malnourished mothers give births to infant who struggle to grow and thrive. The nutritional status of children and women are not equally distributed throughout the country.

The incidence of Poverty in Bangladesh is one of the highest in the world. Millions of people suffer from the hardship of poverty. About one-third (31.5 percent) of its population is living below the poverty line. Moreover, inequality afflicts the persistence of poverty. Furthermore, the recent spikes in food prices, causing food inflation, have impact on poverty and in a business as usual scenario, with the increase of one percent in food inflation, may plunge an additional population of 0.04 million under the poverty line.

This study has focused on impacts of increasing production costs on rice price as well food security situation in Bangladesh. The research report has estimated rice demand according to the consumption rate of growing people. Paddy rice production cost and rice price, and in the same time to find out the earning level of local farmers, is one of the main objectives of this current study. The report has also shown the rice import, procurement and distribution status compared to total food grain situation in recent years.

Indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) of Bangladesh are managing forests around their homesteads in a sustainable way despite exclusion of customary rights on government managed reserved forests,. Bangladesh, as one of the forest poor countries in the world, is continuously struggling to conserve its forest resources.

The Bali Action Plan shines with lots of hopes for developing countries that in two years there would be a shared vision to combat global warming. In that plan, the shared vision was portrayed as a ‘long term cooperative action” which would include a “long term global goal for emission reduction”.