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...