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Charbhadrasan (Faridpur)

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A char and floodplain upazila of Faridpur on the active Padma channel, with settlements and farming on shifting river lands.

Wealth rank 103/452 (1 = poorest upazila)

Indicators: Meta RWI (HDX); ERA5-Land; MODIS; Sentinel-5P; VIIRS night-lights; GHSL; Hansen v1.11; CHIRPS v2.0. Exposure: GloFAS v2.1, FABDEM, MODIS LST, ACAG PM2.5, WorldPop 2020.

Problems and issues

poverty A mean Relative Wealth Index of -0.188 (national rank 103/452, third decile) makes Charbhadrasan one of the poorest upazilas in the district group, consistent with deprivation concentrated on river chars. So what: Low household wealth on the chars leaves families highly vulnerable to land loss and floods. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)
water As a char upazila on the active Padma channel, it is directly exposed to bank erosion and seasonal flooding that erode farmland and displace households. So what: Annual erosion strips cropland and forces repeated displacement. Source: Bangladesh Water Development Board

Probable solutions

River-bank protection and revetment paired with predictive erosion mapping and managed relocation of at-risk char households Responsible: Bangladesh Water Development Board · policy proposal
Char-targeted livelihood and social-protection transfers to lift the poorest agrarian households Responsible: Department of Agricultural Extension · policy proposal