Under the “Dhaka CALLING” Project which is being implemented by the DSK consortium (DSK, BARCIK, CUP, and inSights) a meeting was arranged at the Secretariat of Bangladesh recently where Mr. Saber Hossain Chowdhury, MP and Minister of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) participated as chief guest and shared his views and […]
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Bablu Joardar from the coast Climate change has posed extreme threats globally including Bangladesh. But despite this climate change related threats human beings have not restrained themselves from their nature-destroying activities. Nature and environment are being destroyed every day in the name of development! The new generation will suffer the terrible consequences of this
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Abul Kalam Azad from Shyamnagar Satkhira A farmer’s-led on-farm participatory research involving seven native cultivars of stem amaranth has been in progress since November 2023. The trial is taking place in the courtyard of a farm in the south-western coastal area of Dhumghat village, located in Sahymnagar upazila under Satkhira district. The primary objective
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The slum dwellers called for the inclusion of the rights and demands of the urban poor in the manifesto of the political parties in the upcoming 12th National Parliament elections of Bangladesh. They made this demand in the discussion meetings titled ‘We want urban poor-friendly election manifesto’ organized jointly by BARCIK, and 70 urban poor
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The participants in the Climate March held today in Rajshahi city demanded drought fund and climate justice to the rich countries in the upcoming Climate Change Conference (COP-28) to be held in Dubai, UAE. At the same time, they also urged to reduce the use of fossil fuel to control the global warming. The participants
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Char land is abundant with crops, fish and natural resources which are damaged by early flood and river erosion every year. The early flood comes from the upstream of the Ganges and Jamuna Rivers. Due to these floods acres of agricultural land are destroyed every year. This negatively impacts the country’s national economy and food
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Press release (Netrakona) The youth of Netrakona region have demanded to form a global climate fund to protect the haor (wetlands). They made this demand at the ‘Haor Youth Climate Conference’ jointly organized by BARCIK, a non-governmental development research organization, and Netrakona Sammilit Yuva Samaj, a coalition of 38 youth organizations, on Thursday (October 26).
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By Silvanus Lamin We know and even witness that women account for a substantial proportion of the agricultural labor force. They including men play role in food production including doing all households works which are not economically measured. Facilitating development activities in different parts of Bangladesh BARCIK has accumulated the experiences about the contributions of
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By Md. Ahidur Rahman from Netrakona If climate justice is ensured it will reflects in the decline rate of climate induced disasters and this will impact of lands, agriculture and other aspects of the nature. Disasters often damage crops, deteriorate the structure of landscape and sometimes contaminate the fresh water sources of living being. Farmers
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‘High temperature is increasing the physical and mental illness of people. El Nino will keep coming and next year’s summer will be hotter than this year. We are planning to build city network and working on climate migration. We have to adapt as much as possible and find ways of mitigation. We need to be
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