Climate change impacts in Bangladesh
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
With the Himalayas to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the south, Bangladesh sits on one of the world’s largest and most densely populated deltas, where the Jamuna, Padma and Meghna rivers converge.
The first project under Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under Kyoto Protocol will be commissioned on the outskirts of the capital today. WWR Bio Fertiliser Bangladesh Ltd, a joint venture company of Waste Concern, in association with World Wide Recycling BV, a Dutch company, has established the compost plant at Bhulta on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway, about 12 kilometres off the capital.
Sharp fall in underground water level will make about 3 lakh shallow tube wells inoperative during the peak boro season hampering its cultivation on 8 lakh hectares, which is about 16 per cent of total arable land. Sources of the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation said on Monday that this problem would ultimately reduce boro production by about 28 lakh tonnes.
Around 13 megacities have so far been identified as ABC hotpots. Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Dhaka, Karachi, Kolkata, Lagos, Mumbai, New Delhi, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Tehran where soot levels are 10 per cent of the total mass of all human-made particles. ABCs can reduce sunlight hitting the Earth's surface in two ways.
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Arsenic-polluted water used for irrigation in certain areas of India, Bangladesh and Nepal is posing a health hazard for people eating food from the crops irrigated. The accumulation of arsenic in the soil is a threat to sustainable agriculture in the areas affected. These problems are not yet widely recognised. Urgent action is required to address them.
Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh has inaugurated a centre of nutrition for development of nutrition.
The high food prices that have sparked riots in many parts of the developing world - from Indonesia, India and Bangladesh to Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire and Haiti -should come as no surprise. These are only the latest in a series of events many developing countries have suffered as a result of opening their borders and neglecting domestic agriculture.
BANGLADESH has been ranked 70th among 88 nations in the global hunger index (GHI) as reported by media recently. From January 2007 to June 2008, one-third of all the countries, for which GHI was calculated, suffered from a violent or non-violent protest, with multiple occurrences in Bangladesh, according to the report prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute.
Over 100 poultry farms have faced closure in Sadar and Hatibandha upazilas of Lalmonirhat in the last few months. The businessmen who once became solvent through running the business are now passing days with anxiety of how to recover their extensive losses.