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Estimating the Impact of Salinity Stress on Livelihood Choices and Incomes in Rural Bangladesh

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  • Asif Reza Anik
  • Ram Ranjan
  • Thiagu Ranganathan

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This paper explores the impact of salinity on livelihood choices of rural households in south‐western Bangladesh. We find interdependence among households' decisions involving various livelihood choices. High salinity reduces a household's probability of entrepreneurship while those households that stick only to agriculture suffer significant crop losses because of salinity. Households also face a trade‐off between subsistence and entrepreneurial activities, that is, participation in one type of activity reduces the probability of participation in the other. Households with more agricultural land, in fact, benefit from high salinity levels by taking up fisheries related activities, whereas marginal households resort to increasing labour supply. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Asif Reza Anik & Ram Ranjan & Thiagu Ranganathan, 2018. "Estimating the Impact of Salinity Stress on Livelihood Choices and Incomes in Rural Bangladesh," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(8), pages 1414-1438, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:30:y:2018:i:8:p:1414-1438
    DOI: 10.1002/jid.3364
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    1. Anik, Asif Reza & Eory, Vera & Begho, Toritseju & Rahman, Md. Mizanur, 2023. "Determinants of nitrogen use efficiency and gaseous emissions assessed from farm survey: A case of wheat in Bangladesh," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 206(C).
    2. Yukyan Lam & Peter J. Winch & Fosiul Alam Nizame & Elena T. Broaddus-Shea & Md. Golam Dostogir Harun & Pamela J. Surkan, 2022. "Salinity and food security in southwest coastal Bangladesh: impacts on household food production and strategies for adaptation," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 14(1), pages 229-248, February.
    3. Guimbeau, Amanda & Ji, Xinde James & Long, Zi & Menon, Nidhiya, 2024. "Ocean salinity, early-life health, and adaptation," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 125(C).

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