If you liked this story, share it with other people. The changing climate, rising sea levels and other anthropogenic factors are forcing a vast area of Bangladesh’s coastal zone to remain barren due ...

A centuries-old technique for growing floating beds of vegetable crops is gaining popularity in Bangladesh's southern coastal districts, a response to flooding and sea rise worsened by climate change ...

LALMONIRHAT DISTRICT, Bangladesh, May 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The people of Shaniazan union, in northern Bangladesh, still remember when a river burst its banks in the early 1990s and ...

Two staples — paddy and wheat — and one cash crop, jute, are the major focus areas of researchers and scientists in Bangladesh due to their importance to food security and the economy. However, state ...

Bangladesh’s rural economy, and specifically agriculture, have been powerful drivers of poverty reduction in Bangladesh since 2000. Indeed, agriculture accounted for 90 percent of the reduction in ...

In the courtyard of the house of Ganesh Chandra Mandal, there is little open space anywhere, but there are vegetables planted everywhere. For years, Mandal, 65, has grown indigenous vegetables — okra, ...

In the low-lying coastal areas of Bangladesh, salinity affects approximately 2.9 million hectares of land. Until recently, this limited the farmers of the area to planting one rice crop a year and ...

LALMONIRHAT DISTRICT, Bangladesh, May 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The people of Shaniazan union, in northern Bangladesh, still remember when a river burst its banks in the early 1990s and ...