Bangladesh is highly disaster-prone, with drought being a major hazard which significantly
impacts water, food, health, livelihoods, and migration. In seeking to reduce drought
vulnerabilities and impacts while improving responses, existing literature pays limited
attention to community-level views and actions. This paper aims to contribute to filling in this
gap by examining how an indigenous group, the Santal in Bangladesh's northwest,
responds to drought through local strategies related to water, food, and migration which in …