Mohammed Mainuddin, Jorge L. Peña‐Arancibia, Fazlul Karim, Md Masud Hasan et al.
Understanding the historical and future spatio-temporal changes in climate extremes and their potential risk to rice production is crucial for achieving food security in Bangladesh. This paper presents results from a study on trend analysis for 13 climate metrics that significantly influence rice pr...
Jorge L. Peña‐Arancibia, Mohammed Mainuddin, Mobin‐ud‐Din Ahmad, Geoff Hodgson et al.
In recent decades, increased groundwater use enabled a large areal increase in irrigated dry season crops in northwest Bangladesh. Concurrent declining groundwater levels across the region are of great concern for food security. A water balance model approach that considered changes in irrigated agr...
Jorge L. Peña‐Arancibia, M. Golam Mahboob, AFM Tariqul Islam, Mohammed Mainuddin et al.
This paper develops a methodology to map the two main rice types in northwest Bangladesh from 1989 to 2016, when Green Revolution technologies and policies resulted in a 300% rice area expansion and localised unsustainable groundwater use. The mapping is performed for the largely irrigated dry seaso...
Mohammed Mainuddin, R.W. Bell, S. K. Sarangi, M. Maniruzzaman et al.
The polders and islands in the salt-affected coastal zone of the Ganges Delta, home to approximately 15 million people in Bangladesh and 5 million in West Bengal, face challenges such as poverty, food insecurity, environmental vulnerability, and limited livelihood opportunities. Historically, agricu...
Sreekanth Janardhanan, Md. Monirul Islam, Md Tohidul Islam, Jorge L. Peña‐Arancibia et al.
The study region is the northwest region of Bangladesh The study focuses on developing an improved understanding of groundwater balance and long-term groundwater storage trends in the districts of northwest Bangladesh. We used MODFLOW-2005 to construct two groundwater models of northwest Bangladesh,...
Mohammed Mainuddin, Mohammed A. Mojid, Michael Scobie, Donald S. Gaydon et al.
Agricultural development from Pakistan to Bangladesh in the Indo-Gangetic Plains, particularly the rise of dry season irrigated agriculture, has led to concerns over falling groundwater tables and the implied unsustainable use of groundwater. The Eastern Gangetic Plains (comprising approximately the...
Mark R. Glover, Jorge L. Peña‐Arancibia, Debolina Sarkar, Manoj Kumar Nanda et al.
The salt-affected coastal zone of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta (CZGBD, ∼37,400 km 2 ), is home to approximately 54 million people, many of whom face livelihood challenges. Primarily an agricultural economy, soil salinity and waterlogging during the dry season (Rabi, from November to March), plus cli...
Mark Glover, Jorge Pena Arancibia, Debolina Sarker, Manoj Kumar Nanda et al.
This collection of five maps represents dry season salinity classes for the CZGBD in each year from 2019 – 2023. This work is the output from a published journal article in Agricultural Water Management 326 (2026) 110135 see Glover et al. (2026) in the Related Links below.
Sreekanth Janardhanan, Dan Pagendam, Daniel MacKinlay, Jorge L. Peña‐Arancibia et al.
<p>Groundwater use for irrigation, stock and domestic purposes from shallow unconfined aquifers is rarely metered in most parts of the world despite significant increase in the rate of use in the recent decades. Most aquifers systems are poorly characterized and monitored rendering ass...