AKM Abdul Ahad Biswas^1,, Md. Tariqul Islam², Md. Abdus Sattar¹, Shamima Nasrin Mili², Tawrat Jahan²

Community based risk assessment (cbRA) is process for assessing local hazards, vulnerabilities, risks; coping capacity and finally identified risk mitigations options are the ultimate outcome of cbRA. Selected study area was Sreerampur sub-sub district in Dumki sub district of Patuakhali district in Bangladesh aiming to gather information on local hazards; to assess community vulnerabilities, capacity, risks and existing adaptation measures adopted by agriculture farmers. Focus-group-discussions, key-informant-interviews, extensive physical visit and exploration of secondary data sources were followed to collect primary and secondary data. Result revealed that in Sreerampur no innovative adaptations options were practiced. Only alternative options are adopting to reduce risks which results higher production costs in agriculture and environmental degradation. Due to the changing trend in risk profiles; increasing its persistence time and frequency and intensity, farmer’s adaptation capacities and sustainability are more exposed to vulnerability. They are increasingly depending on the non-agricultural livelihood activities and migrating from nature based traditional on-farm livelihood to nonfarm livelihood as alternative options, not as innovative sustainable options. Therefore need community based hazard specific more research in agriculture to understand characteristics of hazard events, mode of impact and community based appropriate adaptive measures if we want community resilience in the country.

adaptation, agriculture, community, farmers, risk assessment