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  • BARCIK initiative in post Ampan situation
    Sep 13 2020
    04:20 PM

    BARCIK initiative in post Ampan situation

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    By Fazlul Haque from Satkhira   The rampant damage in the Southern-western part of Bangladesh hit by super cyclone is still visible today. The protection dams (Beribadh) of Shymanagar, sub-district of Satkhira are the most devastated infrastructures during the cyclone. The dams have been ...
  • ‘We want a corona free village’
    Sep 13 2020
    02:23 PM

    ‘We want a corona free village’

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    By Sultana Khatun from Rajshahi   With the slogans ‘We want a corona free village and let us follow the health guideline and inspire other to follow’ a campaign was held in 3 remote villages of Rajshahi. BARCIK and the youth organizations of that read conducted the campaign with the aim to ...
  • Corona, indigenous knowledge and science of nature
    Jun 13 2020
    12:04 PM

    Corona, indigenous knowledge and science of nature

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        Pavel Patha The corona situation once again has brought to light the importance of indigenous knowledge (IK) and the spirits of nature though this knowledge and strength still remains `unrecognized’. There have been several reasons behind this unrecgonition of indigenous knowledge ...
  • Climate change and food security in Bangladesh
    Jun 04 2020
    08:05 PM

    Climate change and food security in Bangladesh

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    BM Touhidul Alam Bangladesh: general context and geographic settings With a population of about 160 million living in an area covering 144,000 km², Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. More than 75 per cent of its people live in rural areas and agriculture ...
  • The blessing of nature
    Jun 02 2020
    08:51 PM

    The blessing of nature

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    Silvanus Lamin : I was born in remote village located in the forested area in Bangladesh where I spent my boyhood with my friends and parents as well as brothers and sisters. Actually, we, the Khasi indigenous community in Bangladesh depend on forest and nature for our life and livelihood. It ...
  • The Corona impacts on the Khasi community
    May 17 2020
    10:18 PM

    The Corona impacts on the Khasi community

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    By Silvanus Lamin It has been more than one and half month since I return to my home village due to corona crisis. I discovered that the corona situation has mostly changed their way of living, practice of rituals, social interaction, religious practices and even economic life. The word corona ...
  • The youth community beside the helpless Dalit population in Corona
    Apr 02 2020
    11:02 AM

    The youth community beside the helpless Dalit population in Corona

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    Syed Ali Biswas from Dhaka Corona appeared in the form of an epidemic in front of people all over the world today. None of us are free from the effects of this. At this point, the need is to maintain physical distance, not social, to keep yourself and others safe. People all over the world […]
  • A man leading community towards agro-ecology
    Jan 21 2020
    01:19 PM

    A man leading community towards agro-ecology

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    ABM Touhidul Alam   For the longest time, irrigated HYV rice has been Abdul Hamid’s primary source ofincome like many others. But last four years, he planted only half the amount that he did in the previous years. The HYV of rice is extremely water consuming to grow. Hamid a father of three ...
  • Community Seed Bank (CSB): an initiative to reduce disaster risks in char areas of Bangladesh
    Jan 20 2020
    02:18 PM

    Community Seed Bank (CSB): an initiative to reduce disaster risks in char areas of Bangladesh

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    ABM Touhidul Alam   Generally, char areas have been created along the bed or basin of the big rivers. Char lands are the sandbars that emerge as islands within the river channel or as attached land to the river banks. Simply, the riverine sand and silt landmasses that are mostly vegetated ...
  • ... Of the people led development
    Oct 24 2019
    06:18 PM

    … Of the people led development

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    By Silvanus Lamin Most recently I went to visit the city known to many of us as ‘Green and clean city’ of Bangladesh Rajshahi with my colleague Mr. Touhidul Alam. BARCIK has been facilitating development programs in the heart and rural areas of the city since 2010 adopting people led ...

    • ‘We want a corona free village’
      ‘We want a corona free village’
      13 September 2020, 2:23 PM 0 73
      By Sultana Khatun from Rajshahi   With the slogans ‘We want a corona free village and let us follow the health guideline and inspire other to follow’ a campaign was held in 3 remote villages ...
      Corona, indigenous knowledge and science of nature
      Corona, indigenous knowledge and science of nature
      13 June 2020, 12:04 PM 0 158
          Pavel Patha The corona situation once again has brought to light the importance of indigenous knowledge (IK) and the spirits of nature though this knowledge and strength still ...
    • Climate change and food security in Bangladesh
      Climate change and food security in Bangladesh
      4 June 2020, 8:05 PM 0 253
      BM Touhidul Alam Bangladesh: general context and geographic settings With a population of about 160 million living in an area covering 144,000 km², Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated ...
      The blessing of nature
      The blessing of nature
      2 June 2020, 8:51 PM 0 284
      Silvanus Lamin : I was born in remote village located in the forested area in Bangladesh where I spent my boyhood with my friends and parents as well as brothers and sisters. Actually, we, the ...
    • The Corona impacts on the Khasi community
      The Corona impacts on the Khasi community
      17 May 2020, 10:18 PM 0 977
      By Silvanus Lamin It has been more than one and half month since I return to my home village due to corona crisis. I discovered that the corona situation has mostly changed their way of living, ...