Bangladesh is suffering from the impacts of climate change, including drought and sea level rise, which are affecting crop agriculture. Adaptation programs are needed to build food security and community resilience. However, in this context, gender plays a key role, with women in Bangladesh disproportionately affected by climate change and in turn, are not incorporated into policy. This paper presents a research project that investigates the role gender plays in adaptation for crop agriculture and how the gender roles in agricultural adaptation in the context of food security’s four components (availability, access, utilization, and stability) affect drought prone and coastal areas in Bangladesh at household to community level. The paper will reflect on how to formulate gender sensitive strategies to ensure sustainable adaptation in agriculture.