livelihood – Ubinig

26Feb

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Farmers benefitted with seeds

UBINIG Farmer Nur khatun in her Mix crop field, potato, French bean, Radish,Sweet gourd. Harvested French Bean Emergency Support to Flood Affected People. Period: August December 2015; Supported By: Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund Noor Khatun (55) wife of Yakub Ali (63), village Baderddan Kata, is a seed recipient after flood. She owns a family of four members including her husband and two sons. She has a homestead area of 40 decimals 60 decimals of cultivable land of her own in the field. This year she has cultivated an area of 140 decimals including her own 60 decimals and leased in 80 decimals. She has grown winter vegetables. In addition to her crops in the field, she has also raised varieties of vegetables and fruits in the homestead area including comm...

19Dec

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Stories of Nayakrishi Farmers

Community Seed Wealth Center and Gumat are disaster shelters

Nayakrishi Andolon Mehinoor Khatun ( 33) is living in the village of Bantiar,Shahjadpur, Sirajgonj. She has two sons and a daughter. Her husband Sontesh Miah is a tuberculosis patient and can not do any work. They have 87 decimal of cultivable land. They also have one cow, two goats, six ducks and six hens. She moved with two sons (9 and 6 year s) and a daughter (1) along with 3 species of seeds, one cow, two goats, six ducks and six chickens in Seeds center and Gumat (Cow shelter) during flood in 2007. This Seed wealth center and Gumat were established by UBINIG for sheltering flood affected people and livestock. Mehinoor Begum said that the Seed wealth center and Gumat were of great help for them during flood. After recession of flood water they planted seeds that they had kep...

10Nov

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About UBINIG

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UBINIG || Tuesday 10 November 2015 || বিষয়: About UBINIG The value of life, livelihood, diversity and diognity is what we aim together to ensure the joy each and every one of us deserve from our liofe. We need your contribution to stand strongly by the communities we work and articulate their voice. Strengthening the inherent resilience of the people and enhancing the capacity to productively and meaningfully participate in all spheres of social life is what we strive to achieve. Please go through the UBINIG website and see what interests you most. You could also come up with suggestions indicating issues that are close to your heart. We work directly with farmers, workers, women, indigenous communities and other marginalized section of the population. UBINIG always resp...

Maintenance of genetic resources ensures food sovereignty

12Mar

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Nayakrishi Andolon

Maintenance of genetic resources ensures food sovereignty

Jahangir Alam Jony and M.A. Sobhan The Nayakrishi farmers at Rajendrapur and adjoining villages in Baraigram upazila of Natore district have been maintaining indigenous genetic resources. They have been maintaining the seeds of local varieties of crops in cultivation. The seeds are maintained on farm as well as in the Nayakrishi Seed Hut at community level. The Nayakrishi initiative aims to ensure the livelihood of the rural community through community based biodiversity management by safeguarding genetic resources and environment against the introduction of invasive genotypes, hazardous technologies and the climate change variations. This initiative ensures secured access of farming communities to nutritious food and increasing income through practicing Nayakrishi . ...

12Mar

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Nayakrishi Andolon

Nayakrishi & Green Deal

Farida Akhter A Nayakrishi Perspective on New Green Deal Introduction Global Green New Deal is on the road to make growth look green. How green it is for the southern countries; is an extremely important question. Policy Brief of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP March 2009)) on Global Green New Deal (GGND) is about the "worst financial and economic crisis'' and raises the question whether the response of financial stimulus of US$3 trillion globally is sustainable. UNEP recommends a green stimulus of 1% of global GDP (approx. 750 billion), which is only one-fourth of the total proposed fiscal stimulus could provide a critical mass of green infrastructure "needed to seed a significant greening of the global economy". However, the focus of the green stimul...