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10Nov

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About UBINIG

Working areas

UBINIG I. TANGAIL Tangail is the first area, where UBINIG started working with handloom weavers in 1987 and with farmers to form Nayakrishi Andolon started since 1989. It has the longest history and also largest number of farming families involved. Tangail is basically a flood plain area, and is known for well-developed agriculture and handloom. The unique agro-ecological feature of this area led us to formulate Nayakrishi concept with the direct interaction of farmers. We have been practising biodiversity-based farming in this district and this is reason that Tangail center is playing the pioneer role for Nayakrishi. Tangail is a surplus agricultural area with very developed craft handloom sector. The relation between agriculture and handloom weaving is very much integrated. Th...

10Nov

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Join Us

UBINIG || Tuesday 10 November 2015 || বিষয়: About UBINIG We are encouraged by your support and welcome your participation & sharing of your knowledge You may join with our activities in many ways and at many different levels. Here are some suggestions. Please contact us for more information and details at the contact address below. Join UBINIG FORUM If you support the issues we work on, this is what you should do immediately. We strongly encourage you to join UBINIG FORUM and participate in various discussions and initiatives taken by the forum. To join the UBINIG FORUM, please fill the Registration Form and once you are a member, please share your ideas with us. Join ANY OF OUR NETWORKS Remain informed and join with the ...

10Nov

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Contribute

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...

6Nov

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Btbrinjal & Corporate Politics

Bt Brinjal Is Under ‘LIFE SUPPORT’

UBINIG EXPERIENCES OF FARMERS IN SECOND ROUND FIELD CULTIVATION INTRODUCTION This is UBINIG’s report on the second round field cultivation of Btbrinjal, an ongoing monitoring of the unethical promotion of GMOs. There are evidences that in the previous field cultivation, the Btbrinjal promoters completely ignored the scientific precautionary ethics and international protocols and principles with regard to the release of GMOs in the environment, particularly in a biodiverse agro-ecological condition posing serious threat of bio-pollution and health hazards. (Please see ‘Farmers are cheated in Btbrinjal ‘field cultivation’ and other stories at www.ubinig.org) For the second round field cultivation, UBINIG research team has collected information from all the 19 districts that ...

5Nov

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What is UBINIG

UBINIG || Thursday 05 November 2015 || বিষয়: About UBINIG What is UBINIG UBINIG is the abbreviation of its Bengali name Unnayan Bikalper Nitinirdharoni Gobeshona (ঊন্নয়ন বিকল্পের নীতিনির্ধারণী গবেষণা). In English it means Policy Research for Development Alternative.Starting as a small study circle in 1984 UBING grew over the years into a policy research organization, and now directly connected with both rural and urban communities to work on various issues that affect people's lives and livelihoods. We work with farmers, workers, weavers, fishers, artisans and crafts persons, commmunity health providers, rural entrepreneurs and other rural communities. UBINIG is a legally registered research and consultancy organization. We work on issues of interests that ...

Stop Bt. Brinjal and Golden Rice Field Cultivation

2Nov

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Events/News

Stop Bt. Brinjal and Golden Rice Field Cultivation

GMO Birodi Morcha and Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (BAPA) Discussion meeting on impact of GMO Crops: Bt Brinjal and Golden rice was held on 2 November, 2015 at the National Press Club, Dhaka. GMO Birodi Morcha and Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (BAPA) jointly organized the discussion meeting. The environmental activist, development workers and journalist participated in the discussion meeting. Professor Moazzem Hossain, Vice President, BAPA chaired the discussion meeting. Farida Akhter, Member, GMO Biridi Morcha, presented the key note speech. The panel speakers were Delowar Jahan, Staff reporter, The daily Shokaler Khabor; Dr. M. A. Sohban, agricultural scientist and Sakiul Millat Morshed, Executive Director, Shishuk. The other speakers included Samiron Biswas, CCDB, Bangladesh; Ibnu...

Farmers Training on Food Safety: Delduar

4Oct

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Farmers Training on Food Safety: Delduar

Jahangir Alam Jony || Sunday 04 October 2015 Farmers’ Training on Safe Food Issues Prior to Declaration of Delduar as a Safe Food Upazila was organized at UBINIG center, Bishnupur, Delduar Upazila, Tangail district on 6 September, 2015. The event was organized by UBINIG on behalf of Bangladesh Food Safety Network (BFSN) with the support from Food and Agriculture Organization – Food Safety Project (FAO –FSP). A total of 36 Nayakrishi farmers from 20 villages of seven Unions of Delduar Upazila participated in the training workshop. Among the farmers there were 18 female farmers and 18 male farmers. The representatives from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO-FSP); Chairman of Delduar Upazila Parishod and UBINIG representatives also participated in the event. The training workshop ...

22Jun

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Events/News

Diversity fair of Brinjal at Prabana

UBINIG || Monday 22 June 2015 A brinjal fair was organized by UBINIG on behalf of Bangladesh Food Safety Network (BFSN) under the aegis of Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Safety Project (FAO-FSP). The brinjal fair was held at Prabartana, 6/8 Sir Syed Road, Moahammadpur, Dhaka on 15 June 2015. The fair was started at 10 am and continued up to 8 pm. About 500 visitors attended the fair in the morning and attended the discussions session. More than thousand visistors visited the fair and was surprised to see so many varieties of brinjals in Bangladesh.This was the first such fair to educate the consumers that safe brinjals are avavilable and by supporting farmers who produce food without hazardous chemicals and pesticide they can ensure a steady supply of this wonderful...

Gender-specific tobacco control measures and Women’s leadership

5Nov

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Tobacco

Gender-specific tobacco control measures and Women’s leadership

Farida Akhter || Wednesday 05 November 2014 The World Health Organization (WHO) took the lead in 2003 to formulate a global treaty called the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is an evidence-based treaty that reaffirms the right of all people to the highest standard of health. It was the first treaty that was designed in developing a regulatory strategy to address addictive substance, such as tobacco and that asserted the importance demand reduction strategies as well as supply issues. The FCTC was unanimously adopted on 21 May 2003, at the 56th World Health Assembly, and was opened for signature, for a period of one year, from 16 June 2003 to 22 June 2003 at WHO headquarters in Geneva and thereafter at United Nations Headquarters in New York, from 30 June 2003 to ...

Addressing ‘micro-nutrient’ deficiencies in Bangladesh: a Nayakrishi Perspective

28Mar

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Nayakrishi Andolon

Addressing ‘micro-nutrient’ deficiencies in Bangladesh: a Nayakrishi Perspective

Farhad Mazhar and Dr. M. A. Sobhan 'Currently most research is invested in new technologies rather than in making better use of existing knowledge. Much more research is needed to turn existing knowledge into practical application.' (WHO 2013) UBINIG’s commitment to biodiversity-based approaches to agriculture, health and nutrition is based on a critical understanding of various technological approaches to solve some of the major problems of poverty, hunger and malnutrition. Recent interest in biofortification, particularly of staple crops, is of critical interest to UBINIG, particularly to the network of Nayakrishi farmers, Specialized Seed Networks and the network of Dai Mas (traditional birth attendants). All of these networks are firmly grounded on valuable local know...