The inhabitants of the tidally active lower deltaic plain of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin adjacent to the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in India and Bangladesh are highly exposed to multiple risks, including cyclones, salinization, pandemics, and socioeconomic marginalization.
While exposure to these hazards has built local resilience and relevant knowledge to interact within this particular social-ecological system, climate change and state interventions represent ongoing challenges for local communities.




THE PROJECT
The project “Social resilience in the Sundarbans” aims at understanding plural accounts and interpretations of the Sundarbans’ ‘riskscape’ produced by state and non-governmental actors and diverse members of the local communities. It seeks to support situated adaptive practices that enhance social resilience through experiments in inland fishing and integrated farming based on transdisciplinary engagement across the political boundaries of the Sundarbans.
AGRO-ECOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS
Recent News & Events
Local Advisory Committee Convenes at Protapnagar
Farmers Share Updates, Experts Offer Guidance On 1 June 2025, SAJIDA Foundation convened a Local Advisory Committee meeting at the Protapnagar Union Parishad to review agricultural progress and chart the way forward. The gathering brought together Union Chairman Abu...
Creation of a farmer cooperative in Pratap Nagar, Assasuni, Bangladesh
Consultation Meeting on Farmer Cooperatives in Pratap Nagar, Assasuni initiated by the Dept. of Cooperatives, GoB, and SAJIDA Foundation Host Department of Cooperatives, Govt. of Bangladesh, and SAJIDA Foundation jointly organized an important consultation meeting on...
NGO Coordination Meeting Highlights ENGAGE’s Efforts in Pratapnagar
Assasuni, Satkhira — 20 May 2025 An NGO Coordination Meeting was held on 20 May 2025 in Assasuni, bringing together key government officials and representatives from a multitude of development organisations working in the region. Showcasing ENGAGE’s Work in...
While the conventional approach of climate change adaptation in the Sundarbans relies on top-down technical solutions and the managed relocation of communities, our ‘living lab’ experimentations build on existing situated adaptive practices with the goals to enhance social resilience, reduce multiple risks and provide alternatives to outmigration.
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