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...
V2V-ENGAGE Winter field school in Kumimari (India)
The inaugural edition of the Sundarbans Winter Field School on Transboundary, Transdisciplinarity, and Transformation through Transitions took place in the Kumirmari village of Indian Sundarbans from 19 - 26 January 2024. This year's theme was ‘Social-Ecological...
ENGAGE4Sundarbans hosts session on Agro-Ecology at the CSD conference
The Bengal River delta, with a population of 250 million, relies predominantly on agriculture. In Bangladesh, agriculture accounts for 13 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs 40 percent of the total labour force. Despite efforts,...
River islands: redefining the anthropocene
The proposed two-day conference is organized by the departments of Sociology and Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Ashoka University, in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, and The Australian National University. It is aimed...
Project envisioning
The discussion on ‘envisioning the project’ was centred on a few points – i) planning for local inceptions, ii) designing research methodology, and iii) research management (data sharing and data management). The Indian team targeted to ensure greater involvement of...
Field Visit in Bangladesh
An exposure to the site Field visit from the 13th to the 15th of June 2023 The teams were moving over concrete roads that were laid up between large water bodies used for saline water shrimp aquaculture, or gher as it is known locally. “This area was full of...
Local Inception meeting
Protapnagar Union, Assasuni Subdistrict, Satkhira District, Khulna Division, Bangladesh - 15th of June 2023 Meeting with the government officials Assasuni is the study site for the Bangladesh counterpart of the project. Before visiting the field site the entire...
National Inception Meeting – Dhaka
En route to the ENGAGE-SOR4D - inception workshop at Dhaka, Bangladesh The ENGAGE-SOR4D (Solution-oriented Research for Development) inception workshop was organized in Dhaka, Bangladesh from June 12 to June 15, 2023. It formally marked the kick-start of the project...
Our Team Meetings
We are regularly organising internal meetings to coordinate our activities such as the creation of the website, the organisation of events and the organisation of fieldwork.