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Onsite Hands-on Training on vermicompost and trellis cultivation

On September 12–13, 2026, an agricultural training workshop took place in Kumirmari, the Indian study site, as part of the ENGAGE4Sundarbans project's broader goal to enhance social resilience through local livelihood diversification. The workshop focused on...

ENGAGE4Sundarbans: In-Situ Workshop, July 2026

Context: In this current phase of ENGAGE4Sundarbans, the prime activity is the Collective Canal Fishing Experimentation (CCFE) in Kumirmari island, assumes the vitality of local canals as a common resource, merits traditional inland fishing practices and brings...

ENGAGE at POLLEN 2026

The ENGAGE4Sundarbans team convened a POLLEN 2026 panel to ask how political ecology can move beyond studying socio-ecological change to experimenting with the ways research itself can become participatory, accountable and transformative. On 3 July 2026, in a...

Inauguration of Crop-processing Facility

ENGAGE event report (1) SAJIDA Foundation and the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh jointly organised an inauguration event for a crop-processing facility and a solar-powered irrigation system under the ENGAGE4Sundarbans project in Pratapnagar, Satkhira, on 30...

Of Fish and Futures: A Grand Beginning through Re/lease

Of Fish and Futures: A Grand Beginning through Re/lease Blog by Spriha Roy, IIT Kharagpur. Spriha.roy24@gmail.com On the 31st of August and the 5th of September 2025, the Mukherjee Canal in Kumirmari, an island situated in Gosaba block of the Indian Sundarbans, came...

Rahima’s Commitment to Crop Diversity

Rahima Khatun’s life has been shaped by challenges. She lives with her husband, one of her sons, his wife, and their child. Her two other sons have married and moved out. Her husband, now elderly, is unable to work much, and the son who lives with them is only able to...

A Beacon of Sustainable Living

Jayanti Rani Saha lives in Pratapnagar, Assasuni, one of the climate change hotspots in Bangladesh. She is a housewife, sharing a modest home with her husband and three daughters. Her husband earns just enough to sustain their family of five. But Jayanti’s...

Recent Stories

River islands: redefining the anthropocene

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

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

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

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...