COVID-19: UBINIG Report Series
Oxygen crisis and the fault in our healthcare system
Farida Akhter || Friday 09 July 2021
A lack of oxygen support systems in Bangladesh’s public healthcare system are a serious detriment in the battle against Covid-19
The government did not use the time they had over one year to enhance the facilities at the district h...
Tobacco
Conditions of women workers in Smokeless Tobacco factories in Bangladesh
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Investigation by UBINIG (Policy Research for Development Alternative)
Smokeless tobacco use in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, 20.6% of adult population (22 million) uses smokeless tobacco. The mostly used smokeless tobacco (SLT) prod...
Development
Farmers feed people
Farida Akhter || Tuesday 06 April 2021 || READ BY SUBJECT: Development
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THE report on the State of Food and Agriculture: Innovation in Family Farming (2014) by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation estimates that 500 million small family farms, owning...
Enviornment & Ecology
Aman rice and seed sovereignty
Farida Akhter || Saturday 02 January 2021
THIS year, aman rice suffered severe loss due to a series of floods and untimely rain. At the household level, the farmers will have shortage of rice for consumption and ...
Biodiversity , Knowledge and Culture
Rice Diversity and Food Festival
UBINIG || Saturday 29 February 2020
As seeds play a pivotal role in maintaining biodiversity in our ecology, Nayakrishi farmers’ movement has been emphasizing its role in preserving diversity of seeds through the...
GMOs & Genetic Engineerings
Deceptive IRRI strategy to get Golden Rice approved
Farida Akhter || Thursday 25 April 2019
ON MARCH 7, 2019 the director general of the International Rice Research Institute, Dr Matthew Morell visited Bangladesh Rice Research Institute. He discussed with the dire...
Women's Issues
Goats, Women and International Women’s Day
Farida Akhter || Friday 08 March 2019
On the international women’s day, I would like to talk about goats and climate change and will argue why these issues are fundamental for women’s movement as an international...
Food Sovereignty
Flood: Hat-bazar in Tangail
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Flood affected 52,000 people in 58 villages, 8 unions of Delduar Upazila in 2017. Flood water entered quickly in the villages from the Dhaleshway river, and its innumerable tributaries. In addition t...
Btbrinjal & Corporate Politics
Bt brinjal: Alliance for Crooked Science & Corporate Lies
Farida Akhter || Tuesday 08 December 2020 || READ BY SUBJECT: Btbrinjal & Corporate Politics
IntroductionBrinjals, locally called Begun (in Bangla) by the people of Bangladesh, are the most common and favouri...
Climate Change
Local rice varieties are relatively tolerant to cyclone
UBINIG || Sunday 28 August 2016
Zianagar Upazila, Pirojpur Dtitrict (Rice)
Rice growing areas at Zianagar upazila can be categorized into high and los lands. Low land areas occupy about 85 percent and high lan...
New Reproductive Technologies
Commercialisation of women’s infertility
Farida Akhter || Tuesday 26 October 2010
Nobel Prize for IVF or dehumanizing technology?
Robert G. Edwards is awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for physiology/ medicine for the development of human in vitro fertili...
Rice
Cultivation of aman rice: second attempt to maintain seed
UBINIG || Monday 16 September 2019
Most of the fields of aman rice were submerged due to flood in Delduar upazila, Tangail district. Not only the local variety but also High Yielding Varieties (HYV) including BR ...
Trafficking & Migration
Trafficking & Threat of US Sanctions
Farida Akhter || Tuesday 29 June 2010
Trafficking & Free Movement of Labour: Bangladesh on Tier 2 Watch list!
Bangladesh is placed on Tier 2 Watch List, according to the 9th Trafficking in Persons Report (...
Health & Health Policy
Oxygen crisis and the fault in our healthcare system
Farida Akhter || Friday 09 July 2021
A lack of oxygen support systems in Bangladesh’s public healthcare system are a serious detriment in the battle against Covid-19
The government did not use the time they h...
Maternal & Child Health
Maternal and child health care: Daighors & strategic services
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Context of maternal health
Reduction of maternal mortality rate is one of the most important health goals of the government of Bangladesh. The present rate of maternal mortality is 194 per 100,000 live ...
Chatka, Bamboo Binding
Construction of Bamboo Binding -Resisting River Erosion
UBINIG || Saturday 05 June 2021 ||
Location: Bantiar, Sonatoni, Shahjadpur, Sirajganj
Project: Nayakrishi farmers effort to combat disaster (river erosion, flood, drought and water logging) in the context of ...
River & Floods
Seed & Crop Damages of Flood 2017 in Delduar
UBINIG || Sunday 08 October 2017
Flooding, first started in the northern bioregions of Bangladesh and gradually affected the middle sections, submerged more than a third of the low-lying country during July to Se...
Nayakrishi Andolon
Bangladesh: Community Seed Wealth Centers and stress-tolerant crop varieties
Nayakrishi Andolon || Sunday 04 October 2020
Brief history and functions of community seedbanks
In the late 1980’s, small-scale farmers practicing monoculture and chemical-based agriculture experienced loss of...
Mangrove and Coastal Region
Protection of Mangrove forest
UBINIG || Monday 23 September 2019
Badarkhali Union of Chokoria Upazila, Cox,sbazar district is located in between the Matamohuri river and the Maheskhali channel. This union is prone to cyclone and tidal surge....
