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.
This book discusses the past performance and present status of the agricultural sector in India and delineates the challenges faced by it in the era of economic reforms. The effectiveness of some of the existing schemes for agricultural development (price support, credit, marketing, rural/agricultural development experiences) in devising appropriate intervention strategies for agriculture rejuvenation in India is examined. This book also focuses on the issues of employment, poverty, food and nutrition.
World Resources 2008 explores what is necessary to allow such nature-based enterprises to scale up so as to have greater impact
Staff Reporter Bangladesh is increasing in size contradicting forecasts that the parts of the country will disappear under water due to global warming. Scientists at the Centre for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) say that the country's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (12.5 square miles) annually. They said that they have studied 32 years of satellite images and found that the country's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres annually during that time.
Sale of adulterated, stale and substandard foods is rampant in the port city for the last few months in absence of anti-adulteration drive. Owners of a large number of hotels, restaurants and fast food shops in the city have been selling adulterated foods without any problem to the consumers since December last year after the much-talked-about anti-adulteration drive came to a sudden halt following the transfer of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) Magistrate Mohammad Munir Chowdhury to Bogra.
Finance Adviser Mirza Azizul Islam and Environment Special Assistant Raja Debasish Roy met donor country and agency representatives yesterday to thrash out the agenda for a high-level meeting on 'Climate change and Bangladesh' in September. The September 10 meeting, to be held in London, will be the second leg of the UK-sponsored discussion to find ways for the biggest polluting countries to financially and technically assist Bangladesh in climate change adaptation and mitigation. The first leg of the meeting was held in April in Dhaka.
Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday began a tree plantation programme on the campus. Chairman of the afforestation and beautification committee Prof AFM Yusuf Haider inaugurated the programme while planting a few saplings of fruit-bearing trees in the Mokarram Hossain Khandakar Bhaban area on the campus. Caretaker of the Arboriculture department Prof Hadiuzzaman was present on the occasion. Talking to The Daily Star, Prof Yusuf said a total of 500 trees will be planted on the campus under the programme.
The leaders of the South Asian countries are set to issue a separate statement on food security, apart from the SAARC declaration, focussing on activating the regional food bank with an initial outlay of 2.5 lakh tonnes and enhancing cooperation in agriculture for boosting production.
Lemon cultivation has changed the lot of many poor farmers in different villages of the poverty-stricken district of Lalmonirhat. A large number of poor farmers living in the border areas of the district have improved their livelihood by cultivating lemon, local sources said. According to sources at the Agricultural Extension Department, Lalmonirhat, lemon produced in the district meets around 12 per cent of the country's total demand for the citrus fruit.
Flooding and poor harvests have caused North Korea's worst food crisis since the late 1990s and have put millions at risk, the United Nations' food agency said Wednesday. The food shortage threatens widespread malnutrition, the World Food Program said. "Millions of vulnerable North Koreans are at risk of slipping toward precarious hunger levels," Jean-Pierre de Margerie, the WFP's country director for North Korea, told a news conference.
FISH is the cheaper and main source of dietary protein for the nearly 150 million people of Bangladesh and will be depended upon in the diet for all aspects of nutrition by an even bigger population in the future. But this source of nutrition is already under a threat due to dwindling reproduction of various species of sweet water fishes. Bangladesh in the past was home to four or five hundred species of fishes. The number has dwindled down to two hundred and fifty such species with the others becoming extinct.