Building Climate Resilient Livelihoods in Vulnerable Landscapes in Bangladesh (BCRL)
The project aims to improve the resilience of people, communities, and ecosystems to climate change, and to improve livelihoods via increased value-addition in Bangladesh’s agricultural food systems. It works in climate-vulnerable, landscape-level areas, enhancing agricultural productivity, ensuring ecosystem services are preserved, and creating more remunerative value chains so that farmers and agrarian communities can better withstand climate shocks.
Five-Axis Transformation via BCRL
Data: Baseline assessments are used to map climate vulnerability and landscape risk. Household-level data is gathered to understand constraints and opportunities in agricultural practices. Monitoring frameworks are established to track adaptation outcomes and improvements in value chain performance.
Capacity Building / Technical Assistance: The project delivers training to farmers, extension staff, local institutions on climate-smart farming, resilient crops, post-harvest handling, and value-addition. It also supports institutional capacity so that local bodies can sustain adaptation planning and implementation.
Technology / Machinery: Support for adopting improved tools or technologies for climate-resilient agriculture, improved storage and processing to reduce post-harvest losses, and ecosystem conservation or restoration practices.
Finance: The project mobilises co-financing and leverages public and development funding to invest in value chain improvements, adaptation infrastructure, and capacity building.
Policy: Works with government agencies to align agricultural extension, environmental regulation, and land use planning with climate resilience. Supports enabling policies for value addition, climate-adapted production systems, and sustainable ecosystem management.
Strategic Impact & Value Proposition
Enhanced Resilience: Communities in vulnerable landscapes are better prepared for climate risks such as floods, salinity, drought or temperature variability.
Improved Livelihoods: Through value-addition in food systems (post-harvest processing, better value chains), farmers can access higher returns and diversify income sources.
Ecosystem Health: Conservation and ecosystem service restoration contribute to maintaining soil health, water quality, biodiversity, which in turn supports agriculture.
Inclusive Development:Targeting smallholder farmers, often among the most climate-vulnerable, helps reduce inequality and ensures that benefits reach the grassroots.
Scalable Lessons: The approaches piloted here (in data gathering, value chain strengthening, climate-resilient technologies) provide models that can be scaled or replicated in other regions in Bangladesh and beyond.