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Nagarpur (Tangail)

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A low-lying western Tangail upazila on the Jamuna floodplain, exposed to the river's flood-and-erosion frontier.

Wealth rank 332/452 (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. climate disaster Nagarpur sits on Tangail's Jamuna-fed flood-and-erosion frontier, where monsoon flooding and bank erosion threaten low-lying settlements and fields. So what: Recurrent erosion and inundation displace households and cut into farmland. Source: Bangladesh Water Development Board
  2. agriculture Floodplain rice farming here is exposed to the district's warming and seasonal flood pressures on the cropping calendar. So what: Flood and heat stress reduce yields for smallholder farmers. Source: Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE)
  3. poverty Nagarpur's RWI mean of 0.054 places it in the upper-middle wealth deciles among upazilas, indicating modest wealth. So what: Modest wealth offers limited buffer against riverine displacement and crop loss. Source: Meta Data for Good Relative Wealth Index (HDX)

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