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Barkal (Rangamati)

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A remote eastern hill upazila bordering the reservoir and the international frontier, with forested slopes and scattered indigenous farming paras.

Wealth rank 12/452 (1 = poorest upazila)

Indicators: Meta RWI (HDX); ERA5-Land; MODIS; Sentinel-5P; VIIRS night-lights; GHSL; Hansen v1.11; CHIRPS v2.0. Exposure: GloFAS v2.1, FABDEM, MODIS LST, ACAG PM2.5, WorldPop 2020.

Problems and issues

  1. poverty The upazila has a mean Relative Wealth Index of -0.442, ranking 12th of 452 nationally (poorest decile), placing it among the poorest sub-districts in the country. So what: Residents face very deep material poverty with little cash income. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)
  2. climate disaster Heavy monsoon rain on steeply sloping, deforested hills drives recurrent landslides and flash floods that cut off remote paras and damage homes. So what: Seasonal disasters repeatedly isolate and endanger hill communities. Source: Department of Disaster Management
  3. economy Off-grid remoteness keeps the hill interior outside the cash economy, with livelihoods limited to jhum, fisheries on the reservoir and forest produce. So what: Disconnection from markets locks incomes at subsistence levels. Source: Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board

Probable solutions