Findings of FGD: The participants of the four FGDs were asked the questions in 4 components of the VRA tools. The responses, comment, and the score of the participants was recorded accordingly.
The community at Mathbaria mentioned a number of climate change impacts like migration, loss of work due to salinity, less rainfall, ponds not having water, less productivity of rice, saline water intrusion and changing foods that require high water input for cooking. Impacts of climate change affect the drinking water consumption and hygiene habits of the community. They …show more content…
Other health problem as mentioned by them was early delivery, menstrual problems, hair falling due to use of saline water, less intake of water during pregnancy and childhood intellectual development. The indirect health impacts included lack of diversity of food crops and reduced food preparation and intake, cooking all meals for each day in one session, where previously they prepared fresh food for every