Annotated Bibliography of Bangladesh struggles to turn the tide on climate change as sea levels rise

McVeigh, K. (2017, January 20). Bangladesh struggles to turn the tide on climate change as sea levels rise. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/20/bangladesh-struggles-turn-tide-climate-change-sea-levels-rise-coxs-bazar

This article, McVeigh (2017) focused on the economic impacts of climate change in Bangladesh. The author argued that climate change may affect the growth rate and may trap more people in poverty, quantification of these impacts remains difficult. She found that climate change is a major reason for the decline in agriculture productions, where livelihoods depend mainly on agriculture. The author concluded that the increasing rate of salinity will lead to significant shortage of irrigation water for agriculture production.

McVeigh’s news article on The Guardian serves an excellent overview of the effect of climate change on the coastal economy of Bangladesh. Her article is detailed, descriptive, but not well studied on the impact of climate change on agriculture and she didn’t mention any solutions, government roadmap. In her claim there is no strong journal review in the article. This article could be potentially useful to support my argument about how agriculture industry is impacted by climate change.