ArticlePloS one2021
The link between climate change, food security and fertility: The case of Bangladesh.
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- From conception to care: a systematic review of the impact of the climate crisis on reproductive justice.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Pooled it
- Understanding climate-sensitive diseases in Bangladesh using systematic review and government data repository.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- The Impact of Climate Change Awareness on Fertility Intentions in Palestinian Society: Mediating Role of Threat Perception.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The nexus between environmental concern and future childbearing aspirations among university students in Bangladesh.PloS one · 2025Article
- "Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Legume integration in smallholder farming systems for food security and resilience to climate change.PloS one · 2025Article
- Climate change and sexual and reproductive health and rights research in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Effects of extreme climate events and child mortality on total fertility rate in Bangladesh.Heliyon · 2024Article
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- Reproductive Intentions Affected by Perceptions of Climate Change and Attitudes toward Death.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Global Warming and Endocrinology: The Hyderabad Declaration of the South Asian Federation of Endocrine Societies.Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolismArticle
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
Climate change is likely to worsen the food security situation through its impact on food production, which may indirectly affect fertility behaviour. This study examines the direct and indirect effects of climate change (e.g., temperature and precipitation) via the production of major crops, as well as their short- and long-term effects on the total fertility rate (TFR) in Bangladesh. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to perform path analysis and distinguish the direct influence of climate change on fertility and its indirect influence on fertility through food security. We also applied the error correction model (ECM) to analyze the time-series data on temperature and precipitation, crop production and fertility rate of Bangladesh from 1966 to 2015. The results show that maximum temperature has a direct effect and indirect negative effect-via crop production-on TFR, while crop production has a direct positive effect and indirect negative effect-via infant mortality-on TFR. In the short term, TFR responds negatively to the maximum temperature but positively in the long term. The effect of rainfall on TFR is found to be direct, positive, but mainly short-term. Although indicators of economic development play an important part in the fertility decline in Bangladesh, some climate change parameters and crop production are non-negligible factors.
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