Kamruzzaman Md, Chowdhury Ataharul
Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet, 3100, Bangladesh.
Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, ACT, 2601, Australia.
Heliyon. 2023 Sep 4;9(9):e19662. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19662. eCollection 2023 Sep.
The development of agriculture sector and livelihood in Bangladesh are threatened by various climatic stressors, including flash flooding. Therefore, Extension and advisory services (EAS) need to navigate the knowledge landscape effectively to connect various farm actors and help secure the optimum benefits of knowledge and information for making rational decisions. However, little is known how EAS can perform this task to combat various effects of climate change. This study investigates the means of brokering knowledge by the EAS to help the farming sector adapt to flash flooding. The research was conducted in the north-eastern part of Bangladesh with 73 staff of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), the largest public EAS in Bangladesh. The results showed that DAE primarily dealt with crop production-related information. However, EAS did not navigate knowledge and information about flash flooding, such as weather forecasting and crop-saving-embankments updates, among the farming actors. Moreover, they missed the broad utilization of internet-based-communication channels to rapidly navigate information and knowledge about possible flash flooding and its adaptation strategies. This article provides some policy implications to effectively support the adaptation of farming system to flash flooding through EAS.
孟加拉国农业部门的发展和生计受到包括突发洪水在内的各种气候压力因素的威胁。因此，推广和咨询服务（EAS）需要有效地驾驭知识领域，以连接各类农业行为主体，并帮助确保获取知识和信息的最佳效益，从而做出合理决策。然而，对于EAS如何执行这项任务以应对气候变化的各种影响，人们知之甚少。本研究调查了EAS促成知识传播的方式，以帮助农业部门适应突发洪水。研究在孟加拉国东北部开展，调查对象是孟加拉国最大的公共推广和咨询服务机构——农业推广部（DAE）的73名工作人员。结果表明，DAE主要处理与作物生产相关的信息。然而，推广和咨询服务并没有在农业行为主体之间传播有关突发洪水的知识和信息，比如天气预报和防洪堤更新等信息。此外，他们未能广泛利用基于互联网的通信渠道，来快速传播有关可能发生的突发洪水及其适应策略的信息和知识。本文提供了一些政策建议，以通过推广和咨询服务有效地支持农业系统适应突发洪水。
