Bangladesh

Bangladesh is traversed by a network of wide rivers. Many people live on small islands in these river deltas, with the poorest of them settling near the river banks. Since the effects of climate change present particularly strongly in Bangladesh, the resulting regular floods not only threaten numerous lives but also destroy fields and gardens in which food is cultivated. Despite constant economic improvements and declining poverty and hunger rates, nearly 12% of people in Bangladesh are undernourished. In several camps in the district of Cox's Bazar in southern Bangladesh, more than 975,000 Rohingya are seeking shelter from the violence in their home country of Myanmar.