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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Bangladesh is the fourth-highest rice-producing country in the world, but much of that production is threatened by salinity. More than 30% of the ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

KHULNA, Bangladesh, Aug 25 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A long Bangladesh's southern coast, farmers threatened by the impacts of climate change are striving to boost their resilience to rising ...