Food Security Status and Associated Drivers among Climate Migrant Households in Bangladesh: Insight from Urban Informal Settlements

Climate migrants and their food accessibility are one of the burning issues in Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi people are very much used to migration as a strategy to adjust or cope because of their naturally high susceptibilities to weather extremes. According to the Environmental Justice Foundation, “it has been estimated that by 2050, one in every seven people in Bangladesh will be displaced by climate change. Up to 18 million people may have to move because of sea-level rise alone.” These climate migrants are not often able to manage the expense of standard accommodation, and therefore, they begin to live in densely populated urban informal settlements where they have minimal access to food, water, sanitation, education, healthcare, and social services. However, previous studies suggested that the growing demographic pressure generated by urban migration has increased the consumption of food. Thus, this may be impacted the food access in the climate-migrant households. Because the primary drivers in households’ food security are considered food affordability and accessibility in the urban settlements. Therefore, this study is aimed to assess climate migrant households’ food security status in Bangladesh and its associated drivers. This study will be conducted among three selected wards (12, 21, and 31) of Khulna city, Bangladesh, as these areas are significant for urban informal settlements and a lot of climate migrants are living here. This study will use an interview schedule including socioeconomic, demographic, and food security-related characteristics and the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) to collect the research data. A binary logit model will determine the drivers associated with food security and data will be analyzed by using SPSS and Stata

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