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Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)
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The 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA10)
The 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA10) focused on enhancing urban community resilience
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Investing in hilsa fishery as economic infrastructure for Bangladesh
Hilsa fishery is highly valuable to Bangladesh, and anecdotal evidence suggests that the use of economic incentives to manage the fishery has had positive social and ecological outcomes. This project aimed to estimate the true economic value of hilsa fishery and rigorously assess the impact of the economic incentive mechanism
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UK's Darwin Initiative funded project strives to reduce threats to hilsa fish
Senior Bangladeshi officials, researchers and IIED staff have met to review a project that aims to restore hilsa fish stocks and create a sustainable fishing industry in the country
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Bangladesh: protecting the Hilsa from overfishing
Innovative ways to tackle overfishing problems and allow threatened hilsa fish stocks in Bangladesh to recover were devised by IIED and partners
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Vulnerable communities tackling climate change are our best teachers
The poorest communities (and poorest countries) are leading the world in learning about and practising adaptation to climate change. The rich would do well to learn from them.
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Moveable feast: the floating gardens of Bangladesh
The farmers of southern Bangladesh have seen it all: cyclones, catastrophic flooding, silted-up rivers and creeping salination. Their South Asian homeland — a wedge of the tropics regularly exposed to searing heat and heavy monsoons — is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries on Earth.
