Bangladesh. Women in Char Kukri-Mukri tending to mangrove saplings. These saplings will be turned into a mangrove forest to protect the eroding coast. Photo source: ©© UNEP
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Faced with the threat of a massive humanitarian and ecological crisis in the coming decades, the government of Bangladesh is no longer willing to remain silent…
Since 2009 it has poured 350 million dollars into projects to address climate change, including devising better adaptation and mitigation models.
Community-based adaptation to climate change through coastal afforestation is one such model that has attracted global attention for its unique approach to adaptation and sustainability and is now being practiced in Bangladesh.
What started off as a pilot project in 2009 has now provided some 80 landless families in the coastal Sonatola village in the southwestern Barguna district with state-owned fallow land on which to cultivate fruit and vegetables, grow timber trees and rear fish…
Bangladesh: Finding Sustainable Ways to Cope with Sea Level Rise, (Published: 11-18-2010)
As rising sea levels threaten to engulf more land across Bangladesh, NGOs are training thousands of farmers in traditional soil-less farming on water.
