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Anarchy in the Zarda Market: A Smokeless Tobacco (SLT)
As a part of its regular market monitoring activities, Tabinaj – the Women’s Alliance against Tobacco conducted a survey on a particular SLT product, namely Zarda, from July 11 to 20, 2023 in three marketplaces of the Dhaka city–Mohammadpur Town Hall Market, Krishi Market, and K || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Latest Nayakrishi Article
Nayakrishi Andolon: A Short Introducton
CULTIVATING ‘ANANDA’: JOY OF FARMING AND HEALTHY LIVING Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agriculture Movement) is the farmer-led movement in Bangladesh for Shohoj way to Ananda. It started as an organic farming mov || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
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Covid-19 Bangladesh
Oxygen crisis and the fault in our healthcare system
A lack of oxygen support systems in Bangladesh’s public healthcare system are a serious detriment in the battle against Covid-19 The government did not use the time they had over one year to enhance the facilities at the district hospitals with equipment and human resources. D ||Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Tobacco
Anarchy in the Zarda Market: A Smokeless Tobacco (SLT)
As a part of its regular market monitoring activities, Tabinaj – the Women’s Alliance against Tobacco conducted a survey on a particular SLT product, namely Zarda, from July 11 to 20, 2023 in three marketplaces of the Dhaka city–Mohammadpur Town Hall Market, Krishi Market, and K || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Development
Assessing the situation of poverty and hunger- related violation of human rights in Bangladesh
INTRODUCTION Bangladesh is set to graduate to a lower-middle-income country by 2024 from the status of a least developed country. The country has attained the World Bank’s lower-middle-income status in 2015 with a GNI per capita of $1,190, which grew to $1,750 in 2018. Since 2005, Ba ||Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Enviornment & Ecology
A violence of modern agriculture
Farming in Bangladesh. — Wikimedia Commons TWO young farmers, Abhinath Marandi, 30, and Rabi Marandi, 27, at Godagari, Rajshahi committed suicide by taking poison (pesticide) near a Barind Multipurpose Development Authority deep tube well project at Iswaripur on March 23 as the tube || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Biodiversity , Knowledge and Culture
Rice Diversity and Food Festival
As seeds play a pivotal role in maintaining biodiversity in our ecology, Nayakrishi farmers’ movement has been emphasizing its role in preserving diversity of seeds through the Community Seed Wealth Centers. Farmers use diverse variety of seeds, particularly of rice, in the daily lives as w ||Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
GMOs & Genetic Engineerings
Bt Cotton approval. Another alarming threat?
The introduction of GMOs is alarming news for Bangladesh, a country belonging to the biogeographical region known as the origin of diversity, and also for its climatic and agroecological characteristics, which could be detrimental to agriculture in general The Bangladesh National Technical || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Women's Issues
Assessment of 4 SDGs that affect women’s rights and the scenario of access to justice
Introduction A field survey was carried out about the situation of the poor communities in different districts of Bangladesh in light of five sustainable Development Goals SDG2, SDG3, SDG5 and SDG16. The 17 sustainable development goals (SDG) was adopted by all United Nations ||Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Food Sovereignty
Defending biodiversity, seed freedom and food sovereignty
On the occasion of International Environment Day, on June 5, Diverse Women for Diversity launched the Ecofeminist Manifesto, marking a significant event in the history of feminism. With the participation of over 150 women from all different continents, the 58-page ‘Ecofeminist Manifesto&rsq || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Btbrinjal & Corporate Politics
Bt brinjal: Alliance for Crooked Science & Corporate Lies
IntroductionBrinjals, locally called Begun (in Bangla) by the people of Bangladesh, are the most common and favourite vegetable. On 17 May, ||Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Climate Change
Untimely flood and the resilience of Nayakrishi farmers
This is a report on the untumely flood of this year (2121) in the Nayakrishi Area of Delduar, Tangail. It shows that providing flood tolerant and flood resilient rice varieties through Nayakrishi Seed Network could be an effective strategy to cope with untime || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
New Reproductive Technologies
Commercialisation of women's infertility
Nobel Prize for IVF or dehumanizing technology? Robert G. Edwards is awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for physiology/ medicine for the development of human in vitro fertiliz ||Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Rice
Aman Paddy, 2022 Farmers Horrified for lack of Rain
There was 68% less rain than normal this year in the rainy season (July-August), mentioned Mohammad Abdul Mannan, Meteorologist, Bangladesh Meteorological Department. Worst Drought and Heat Wave in the Rainy Season this Year (2022) in Bangladesh which is the Worst Scenario in the Last 41 Y || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Trafficking & Migration
Trafficking & Threat of US Sanctions
Trafficking & Free Movement of Labour: Bangladesh on Tier 2 Watch list! Bangladesh is placed on Tier 2 Watch List, according to the 9th Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) 2009 published by the Department of State of the ||Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Health & Health Policy
COVID 19 Pandemic and Denial of Healthcare
In a country where health care facilities are already inadequate, how can the government and private hospitals are shutting down their medical services? A largely unnoticed, undeclared and sinister shut down of outdoor, indoor and emergency services raises serious questions about the right to hea || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Maternal & Child Health
Maternal and child health care: Daighors & strategic services
Context of maternal health Reduction of maternal mortality rate is one of the most important health goals of the government of Bangladesh. The present rate of maternal mortality is 194 per 100,000 live births showing that Bangladesh cou ||Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Chatka, Bamboo Binding
Construction of Bamboo Binding -Resisting River Erosion
Location: Bantiar, Sonatoni, Shahjadpur, Sirajganj Project: Nayakrishi farmers effort to combat disaster (river erosion, flood, drought and water logging) in the context of climate change and natural calamities. The work for cons || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
River & Floods
Seed & Crop Damages of Flood 2017 in Delduar
Flooding, first started in the northern bioregions of Bangladesh and gradually affected the middle sections, submerged more than a third of the low-lying country during July to September, 2017; it took away at least 132 lives and affected more than 7.5 million people. Crops on more than 10,000 he ||Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Nayakrishi Andolon
Nayakrishi farmers’ seed preservation, land rights, and women’s empowerment
Report: UBINIG, BangladeshIntroductionThis action research report is based on UBINIG’s ongoing work with the Nayakrishi, a biodiversity-based farming practice led by small-scale farmers in two districts of Bangladesh. UBINIG has been working in these two districts (Tangail and P || Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
Mangrove and Coastal Region
Protection of Mangrove forest
Badarkhali Union of Chokoria Upazila, Cox,sbazar district is located in between the Matamohuri river and the Maheskhali channel. This union is prone to cyclone and tidal surge. Heavy damage to life and property had happened due to the cyclone in 1991. Badarkhali Union is a part of the recently er ||Read This ArticleALL OTHER ARTICLES
