ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the findings of a research project “Scaling climate change adaptation knowledge and technologies for empowering women, and to the enhance social equity and disaster resilience in Bangladesh” (SAKTEE). The adoption of socially transformative adaptation technologies may support pursuing the goals of accelerating climate action and reducing gender vulnerability for the achieving social inequity and empowering women and disadvantaged, impoverished people. Agriculture is one of the major livelihoods in the coastal Bangladesh and future change climate is likely to affect the agricultural activities. One of the key objectives of SAKTEE is to identify, evaluate and demonstrate innovative climate change adaptation knowledge and technologies in water and agricultural sectors for multi-level institutional adoption as well as to empower women and poverty-stricken disadvantaged groups in the project districts. Agriculture and aquaculture are the principal livelihood options in coastal Bangladesh.
