ENGAGE4Sundarbans

Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE)

ENGAGE4Sundarbans

Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE)

ENGAGE4Sundarbans

Eliciting Needs-based Grassroots Action through Cross-Group Engagement (ENGAGE)

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 aims to understand 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

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Canal Fishery workshop

Canal Fishery workshop

In September 2024, our ENGAGE4Sundarbans team organised a workshop at Kumirmari Bari with local stakeholders to investigate the possibilities of using canals as fisheries, to upscale our pond experiments. The participation of multiple local stakeholders opened the...

ENGAGE Regional Workshop in Kolkata

ENGAGE Regional Workshop in Kolkata

In September 2024, the ENGAGE4Sundarbans regional workshop aimed to join together our team members from India from IIT Kharagpur and the SJM village community, Bangladesh teams from SAJIDA Foundation and ULAB, and Switzerland UNIL, and exchange around our project with...

Gobeshona Session: Building resilience

Gobeshona Session: Building resilience

"The Gobeshona Global Conference 4 - March 2024  The 4th Annual Gobeshona Global Conference took place on 1st March to 8th March 2024, virtually by International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). The conference provided the opportunity to bring...

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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