Urgent action needed to improve sustainable crop adaptation capacity

The launching ceremony of a book -- Vulnerability and Adaptation (V&A) to Climate Change in Bangladesh: Processes, Assessments and Effects -- by a Bangladeshi-Australian scientist, Dr Md Younus, was held recently in the University of Adelaide in Australia.
The book has been published by Springer (Netherlands) with a foreword written by Nobel Laureate Professor Harvey and endorsed by Nobel Laureate Professor Yunus.
A Fellow of Adelaide University, the author of the book is a pioneer researcher who has been working on V&A issues with some renowned international experts like Professors K B Rasheed, Q K Ahmad, Nick Harvey, Martin Williams, Munir Morad and Richard Warrick since 1994.
Dr Md Younus taught several courses: Environmental Studies: Climate Change and Human Adaptation, Environmental Decision Making Tools, Cities as Human Environments, and Research Project Design and Management in Flinders School of the Environment, Australia.
He has presented many papers in international conferences in the UK, the USA, Australia, Finland, Norway, and Bangladesh and published a number of articles in international scientific journals.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [2007, 2014], the book notes, warned that the megadelta basins in South Asia such as the Ganges Brahmaputra Meghna (GBM) would be at greatest risk due to increased flooding and that the region's poverty would reduce its adaptation capacity.
Its findings deal, among others, with a key issue in assessing vulnerability and adaptation (V&A) in response to extreme flood events (EFEs) in the GBM river basin as the concept of autonomous adaptation.
It investigates autonomous adaptation using a multimethod technique which includes two participatory rapid appraisals (PRA), a questionnaire survey of 140 participant analyses over 14 mauzas in the case study area, group and in-depth discussions and a literature review.
Its findings, as the experts noted at the book launching programme, can act as a guide to policy decisions for effective allocation of adaptation funds at community level in Bangladesh.
The book concludes that urgent action is needed to improve the sustainable crop adaptation capacity at community level in the foreseeable future to cope with extreme floods under a regime of climate change.