Abstract
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Changes in rainfall pattern and intensity of extreme events are evident. Due to the male migration caused by climate change and development drive there occurs huge feminization in agriculture. The perception and impact of climate change is completely gender differentiated; women are seemed to be disproportionately affected by climate change. Moreover, to cope with the climate change the community is now cultivating new crops and varieties. Besides, they are using different new cultivation methods and techniques to adapt with climate change. For newly introduced crops the traditional knowledge is not sufficient. Use of mobile phones for knowledge and information sharing in agriculture is gaining popularity among farmers. Growing interest on climate change adaptive agriculture among the female farmers and easy availability of mobile phones and network service created an opportunity of knowledge management on adaptive agriculture. The mobile phone use efficiency and ICT self-efficacy among the rural women are significant. The decisionmaking capacity of women is limited and there are number of challenges though the farming responsibility is gradually shifting towards them. The study was conducted in the Charland of Nilphamari District of Bangladesh from June 2017 to December 2019 to know the scopes and requirements of adaptation knowledge management in agriculture.
 Res. Agric., Livest. Fish.7(2): 225-233, August 2020
Highlights
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change
This paper aims to articulate the role of mobile phone device as an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tool in knowledge management in coping with the climate change in agriculture by the women farmers
The current study has interviewed the animators to know the climate change impact and mobile phone use efficiency; though the interview targeted covering all the 100 trained research animators of the project, but during the assessment only 85 individuals were covered while others were not available in the village
Summary
Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. Climate change means that many natural disaster-prone areas will become more prone due to increased frequency and intensity of disasters (Hossain, 2012). It is necessary for farmers to take measures to reduce and manage climate change risk by ensuring intergenerational equity and sustainable development (Islam and NurseyBray, 2017); adaptation is necessary to reduce this vulnerability (Stern, 20017) and adaptation can successfully reduce negative impact by enhancing positive outcome in crop production amongst other responses (Wheeler et al, 2013). Government and development organizations in Bangladesh have been introduced number of adaptation technologies which includes new species and varieties of crops and cultivation practices to cope with the climate change
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