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Youth leaders from across the Commonwealth have addressed Health Ministers at an intergenerational dialogue on youth mental health held in the margins of the 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. ....
Braving heavy heat, she was standing in a long queue in the capital’s Farmgate last week with hopes to buy some essential items at subsidised rates from a truck selling the products. ....
River farms are a longstanding component of Bangladesh s significant agricultural industry - Copyright Canva By • Updated: 13/04/2021 Bangladesh’s farmers were developing creative planting solutions long before climate change was on most people’s radar. The country’s wild monsoon seasons deemed it a necessity. In the event of excess rain, parts of the country become vulnerable and thousands are forced to migrate. Experts predict that by 2050 about 20 per cent of the available land in Bangladesh will be permanently underwater. Climate change places other vulnerable countries in the same position meaning they may soon need to understand how to do things with less land and more water. ....
Bangladesh growers switch to hydroponic to fight salinity “For almost half of a year, we remain drowned in floods,” Montu Mian, a 45-year-old farmer from Satkhira district in southwestern Bangladesh, told. “Salinity is a perennial problem. So, we can neither cultivate crops nor fishes. If we cultivate fish in ponds, we cannot use the water for drinking or cooking purposes, as it becomes filthy. We cannot afford that luxury as the source for drinking water is scarce due to salinity.” Two-third of Bangladesh is wetlands, and most parts remain submerged for eight months at a stretch almost every year. Bangladesh is prone to floods and water-logging due to Ganga-Brahmaputra river tributaries that flow through the nation and often change their course. ....