%C Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India %A U K Deb %A M G Ahamed %A A K M Nazrul Islam %A M Al Amin %A N Khaled %A A Nabi %A M C S Bantilan %A N P Singh %I International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics %L icrisat6547 %S Policy Brief No. 21 %D 2013 %T Mainstreaming Grassroots Level Adaptation and Building Climate Resilient Agriculture in SAT* Bangladesh %X Global climate is likely to change further and faster over the coming decades, resulting in adverse impacts on ecosystems, peoples’ livelihood and economy. There are evidences that climate change has affected global weather patterns, disrupted climatic trends and has resulted in aggravated occurrences of climate related extreme events such as heavy rainfall, drought, flood, cyclone, storm surge, etc, claiming thousands of lives, destroying billions of dollars worth of properties and disrupting livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people.