Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow
Mohammad Alauddin, Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker
Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow
Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow
Purpose – This paper aims to examine rice farmers' selection of adaptation strategies to cope with and offset the effects of climate change and the determinants of those selections in Rajshahi, a severely drought-prone district of Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach – Farm-level micro data were ...
Mohammad Alauddin, Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Zeenatul Islam, Clem Tisdell
Managing scarce irrigation water poses a major challenge globally because of changing climate and a rising population. Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) is widely regarded as a water-saving irrigation technology capable of contributing to sustainable water-use. Existing literature lacks rigorous qu...
Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow
Abstract This paper uses the framework of the Just–Pope production function to evaluate the impacts of climate change on yields of the rainfed Aman rice crop in Bangladesh. It analyses disaggregated district-level data on climate variables and Aman rice yield over a 48 year time horizon. The results...
Nurnabi Sheikh, Raisul Akram, Nausad Ali, S. M. Raysul Haque et al.
The aim of this study was to explore the association of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices with health and nutritional status among children aged 0-23 months and to investigate the predictors of minimum acceptable diets (MADs) using Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) data. ...
Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Khorshed Alam
This paper employs Granger-causality test on the nexus between economic growth and electricity generation using Bangladesh data covering the period 1973-2006. The test results indicate that only unidirectional causal relationship exists between electricity generation and economic growth. The short r...
A K M Helal Morshed, Salauddin Al Azad, Md. Abdur Rashid Mia, Mohammad Fahim Uddin et al.
The HER2-positive patients occupy ~ 30% of the total breast cancer patients globally where no prevalent drugs are available to mitigate the frequent metastasis clinically except lapatinib and neratinib. This scarcity reinforced researchers' quest for new medications where natural substances are sign...
Palash Roy, Sujan Sarker, Md. Abdur Razzaque, Md. Mamun-Or-Rashid et al.
Mobile Device Cloud (MDC) has become a promising and lucrative cloud environment that exploit nearby mobile devices’ idle resources to improve compute-intensive applications. Computing code at nearby mobile devices rather than a distant master cloud helps improve real-time applications’ performance....
KHADIYA AKTAR MAYA, Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Jeff Gow
Introduction: Climate change has emerged as a major threat to Bangladesh. Higher and fluctuating temperatures and changes in rainfall caused by climate change and extreme weather events have reduced crop production. A better understanding of the local dimensions of vulnerability is therefore essenti...
Mahedi Hasan, Mohammad Alauddin, Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Mohammad Jakaria et al.
Significant manifestations of adverse effects of climate change exist for crop agriculture throughout the developing world including Bangladesh. Despite wheat being the second most important staple food, any rigorous analysis of its sensitivity to climate change remains an unexplored area of researc...
Mahedi Hasan, Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker, Jeff Gow
Despite substantial volumes of research on the impacts of climate change on rice productivity little attention has been paid in evaluating how these impacts differ between traditional varieties (TVs) and high yielding varieties (HYVs). In this study, Aman and Boro rice yields are examined, as respec...
Pranjal Kumar Nandi, Md. Rejaul Islam Reaj, Sujan Sarker, Md. Abdur Razzaque et al.
Zeenatul Islam, Mohammad Alauddin, Md. Abdur Rashid Sarker