afb06c08-f8aa-46f0-829f-630ef35d6d95 PhD. Mohammad Abdul Malek Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC Senior Researcher 75 Mohakhali Dhaka Dhaka 1212 Bangladesh 2023-05-02T18:59:54 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 WGS 1984 Overlap of Marginality Hotspots and Agricultural Potentiality Map of Bangladesh (from ZEF Working Paper 114: Mohammad Abdul Malek, Md. Amzad Hossain, Ratnajit Saha and Franz W. Gatzweiler: Mapping marginality hotspots, 2013) 2014-01-27T00:00:00 2013-12-19 PhD. Mohammad Abdul Malek Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC Senior Research Fellow 75 Mohakhali Dhaka Dhaka 1212 Bangladesh malekr25[at]gmail.com Ratnajit Saha Research and Evaluation Division, BRAC 75 Mohakhali Dhaka Dhaka 1212 Bangladesh saharatnajit[at]gmail.com The mapping of the overlap between the marginality hotspots and agricultural potentials shows that there are eight marginal sub-districts in seven districts with highest unused agricultural potentials. These are Rajibpur (Kurigram), Dowarabazar (Sunamgonj), Porsha (Naogaon), Damurhuda (Chuadanga), Hizla (Barisal), Mehendigonj (Barisal), Bauphal (Patuakhali) and Bhandaria (Pirojpur). These areas are mostly in unfavorable agro-ecological Zones (AEZs). An AEZ in Bangladesh is defined broadly. While most of the areas within an unfavorable AEZ are not suitable for crop agriculture, there may still be some areas which are suitable for agriculture. This will become clear if we compare the map of suitability mapping and the map of unfavorable AEZ which suggests that there are some areas within the unfavorable AEZ which are suitable for agriculture (both agro-climatically and agro-edaphically). Among those marginal areas, Patuakhali, Pirojpur and Barisal are in the coastal region, Kurigram is in the Northern Char region, Sunamgong in the Haor region and Naogaon is in the drought prone areas. Only Chuadanga, among these seven districts, is not in agro-ecologically vulnerable region (Appendix B) but in food in-secured region. Another point to note is that four out of these eight sub-districts are adjacent to the Indian border, whereas the other four sub-districts are located in the coastal region. The concentration of marginality and agricultural potentials overlap in the aforementioned areas may be due to their limited connectivity with the main growth centers and ecological vulnerability. These areas are bypassed due to the general perception of AEZs as uniform entities and therefore receive less attention. https://daten.zef.de:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/afb06c08-f8aa-46f0-829f-630ef35d6d95/attachments/Overlap_of_Marginality_Hotspots_and_Agriocultural_Potentiality_Map_of_Bangladesh.jpg https://daten.zef.de:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/afb06c08-f8aa-46f0-829f-630ef35d6d95/attachments/csm_TIGA_logo_01_5f5f67c173.png TIGA Research Project 2021-06-04 geonetwork.thesaurus.local.discipline.RP-KW agricultural economics agriculture GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 2010-01-13 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet marginality agricultural potentials marginality hotspot mapping agricultural potential mapping crop suitability mapping marginality and potential overlap mapping Bangladesh Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. 2015-07-17 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Publications based on derivations from the data require citation of the data source: Malek, M. A., Saha, R. (2014): Overlap of Marginality Hotspots and Agricultural Potentiality Map of Bangladesh. https://daten.zef.de/#/metadata/afb06c08-f8aa-46f0-829f-630ef35d6d95 100000 society 87.75880737591555 92.65870971898357 21.555275882063523 26.68672132980691 ESRI Shapefile 1.0 ArcGIS layer package (LPK) Center for Development Research zefdata[at]uni-bonn.de http://www.zef.de/project_tiga.html WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link TIGA Project Homepage of the TIGA Project https://daten.zef.de:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/afb06c08-f8aa-46f0-829f-630ef35d6d95/attachments/TIGA_overlap_marginality_agriocultural.zip WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download TIGA_overlap_marginality_agriocultural.zip Overlap of Marginality and Agriocultural Potentiality Map of Bangladesh. ArcGIS Map Package containing shapefiles and ArcGIS 10.0 map project (mxd) http://www.zef.de/uploads/tx_zefportal/Publications/wp114.pdf WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link ZEF Working Paper 114: Mapping marginality hotspots and agricultural potentials in Bangladesh ZEF Working Paper 114: Mapping marginality hotspots and agricultural potentials in Bangladesh This dataset is a result of the overlap of the marginality hotspots and agricultural potentiality map. Origin dataset - see below uuid sources