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Bangladesh

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The people of southern Bangladesh are resilient and good at adapting to change: the most common vehicle in the city of Mongla is an electric rickshaw powered by a 12volt battery (Photo: Andrew Norton/IIED)

Snapshots of a changing world – climate change impacts in Bangladesh

Insight, 01 February 2018

34 wind turbines in Adama, Ethiopia, produce 51 megawatts. Ethiopia is an early adopter of climate change policy (Photo: Ollivier Girard/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Author Q&A: The political economy of low carbon resilient development

Article, 08 November 2016

A wholesale fish market in Cox's Bazar on the Bay of Bengal. Fishing communities need access to finance and infrastructure such as clean water, refrigeration and transport (Photo: Aftab Uzzaman, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Untangling the net: what does 'leave no one behind' mean for fishers?

Insight, 11 July 2016

An image of television footage of a man standing instead a destroyed house after Cyclone Roanu hit Bangaldesh (Photo: Google licence)

Cyclone Roanu hits Bangladesh: a story of loss and damage avoided

Insight, 27 May 2016

An image of Mohammad Sayedul Haque, the Bangladesh Minister of Fisheries and Livestock alongside a table around which sit participants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and India as they discuss sustainable hilsa fishery management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)

Scientists call for international collaboration to safeguard hilsa fish stocks

News, 06 May 2016

Conference organiser Saleemul Huq receives the "Burtoni" award: from left to right: Ian Burton (IPCC lead author), Roger Jones (CSIRO), Atiq Rahman (BCAS), Saleemul Huq (IIED) and Richard Klein (SEI) (Photo: IISD)

2nd International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA2)

Article, 14 April 2016

A hilsa, the national fish of Bangladesh. Inadequate government compensation during periods when fishing is banned has a harsh economic consequence for families (Photo: BBC World Service Bangladesh Boat, Creative Common, via Flickr)

Forced to sell the roof over their heads

Insight, 04 April 2016

A farmer in Bangladesh (Photo: ranakmartin/CIMMYT, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Poverty Environment Partnership meeting focuses on Sustainable Development Goals

News, 26 February 2016

Villagers dig out a silted up water tank, paid for by India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (Photo: Mackay Savage, Creative Commons via Wikimedia)

Finding solutions for less poverty and better ecosystems

Insight, 15 December 2015

A USAID programme training workers to install solar panels at health clinics in Rwanda. Rwanda is an early adopter of low-carbon climate resilient development (Photo: Walt Ratterman, Sunepi, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The political economy of financing climate resilient development

Article, 10 July 2015

Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change and is at the forefront of adaptation efforts. This homestead has been designed to offer flood protection (Photo: CGIAR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Sharing knowledge to climb the adaptation ladder

Insight, 03 July 2015

Bowls full of hilsa placed on a table

Investing in hilsa fishery as economic infrastructure for Bangladesh

Archived Project

Delegates discuss the Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund at the Bangladesh workshop. The fund is part of work to enhance the effectiveness of incentive-based fisheries management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)

Conservation trust fund proposed to help manage Bangladesh fish stocks

News, 25 June 2015

Workers build up the banks of the Teesta River in Bangladesh. Bangladesh already spends six per cent of its annual budget on climate change adaptation (Photo: International Rivers, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Musings from a first timer at a CBA conference

Insight, 30 April 2015

Bangladeshi fishers with debts must repay loans even when fishing is banned, resulting in illegal fishing activities (Photo: John Pavelka, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Idris bhai, your voice has been heard!

Insight, 24 March 2015

Government officials and researchers discuss the future of hilsa management on 19 January (Photo: Essam Mohammed/IIED)

UK's Darwin Initiative funded project strives to reduce threats to hilsa fish

News, 19 January 2015

Fishermen hauling in nets near the Kenyan coastal town of Shimoni (Photo: Anna Kika via Flickr)

Can we save our fisheries with lessons from our forests?

Insight, 27 November 2014

Introducing improved climbing bean varieties in Rwanda has transformed beans from a subsistence crop into a cash crop (Photo: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Flickr)

How are Rwanda, Ethiopia and Bangladesh preparing for climate change?

Insight, 24 November 2014

Fishermen along the Meghna Rover (Photo: Essam Mohammed/IIED)

Want to know how to save a fish species? Ask a fisher

Insight, 08 June 2014

Resilience Academies to connect climate change research, policy and practice

News, 10 September 2013

Rickshaws on the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital city.

Bangladesh: from adaptation to low carbon resilience?

Insight, 10 July 2013

Fishermen collecting the day's catch

Bangladesh: protecting the Hilsa from overfishing

Archived Project

Men and women fish off the island of Padma Pakur. Image by Espen Rasmussen/PANOS

Compensation for conservation of Bangladesh’s national fish

News, 28 May 2013

Community-based adaptation in Bangladesh. Photo: G.M.B. Akash/PANOS

Developing nations put climate change adaptation at the centre of planning

News, 25 April 2013

Related tags

Climate change adaptation

Sustainable fisheries

International Centre for Climate Change Adaptation and Development (ICCCAD)

Community-Based Adaptation (CBA)