Category: Bangladesh
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Duck Farming: Rozina Leads the way
Food and nutritional security is one of the major challenges that the smallholders and other marginalised communities face in the era of global health and environmental problems such as the pandemics and climate change, including biodiversity loss. Smallholder farmers are now adopting practices that reduce the impact of climate change impacts and more importantly, the…
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Smallholders in Bangladesh transform their drought-prone farms
Four years ago, when SAFBIN started working with 405 smallholder families in Tanore of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, increasing agricultural production in this drought-prone Barind region was a challenging task. But farmers like Ms. Akhtara Begum (42) accepted that challenge. She is a progressive farmer from Chimna village. Her husband Md. Ruhul Amin (47) inherits a piece…
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Farmer collectives promote pollinator-friendly practices for healthy and functioning ecosystem services and sustainability of agriculture.
SAFBIN programme in Bangladesh is promoting pollinator-friendly practices by introducing and expanding the population of natural pollinators and predators. In 2021, SAFBIN started working to increase the natural pollination of fruits and crops through honey bees. The smallholder farmer collectives headed by Md. Sader Ali in Paba district, started keeping bees to increase natural pollinators and also collect…
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Collectivization is Strength-Smallholders Collectives show the way
There are many millions of small farmers in Pakistan who grow crops, catch fish, rear poultry or keep farm animals but they consume almost everything they produce. Their cost of production is also higher which ultimately reduces their profit margin. Sometimes farmers do a lot of manual labor themselves due to which sowing or harvesting…