Project Description:

This study was conducted in 2014 at Kurigram Sadar Upazila to provide a comprehensive picture of the project intervention areas relating to climate change, behaviors and practices, climate adaptive, and thus the project’s impacts throughout the project lifespan. The study emphasizes on climate change, climatic risk, adaptive option & community participation on agro-practices and provides information on gender impacts that focuses on family-level decision making and mobility of women. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection were adopted.

The data were collected using a Face to Face Interview (F2F). For obtaining qualitative data, FGD and KII have been conducted. A total of 350 household farmers has been selected for this study and among them 272 households from FFS (Farmer Field School) and 78 from the non-FFS household. The demographic information indicated that the age of the beneficiary’s farmers between 35 and 45.9 years. Female farmers are much younger than male farmers where the mean age of the female is 35.5 and the male age is 45.3 age. The average size of household members is 5.6 persons per household. One-fourth of the farmers have studied up to primary level, and have small representations in secondary and higher secondary. There were 41% of the farmers who can’t write or read anything except signing their names and 19% of the illiterate farmers. 93% of farmers are married, 1% unmarried and 6% are widows, divorced, separated. Data shows that there is a good number of male beneficiaries (28.9%) who do not have alternative occupations rather than agriculture. And majority-female beneficiaries (83.1%) reported that they were served just as housewives. Most of the male farmers (32.9%) were involved with day labor and small business (23.1%) and very few farmers mentioned fishing and service.