indigenous knowledge

There’s a long-standing debate about agricultural, fisheries, and livestock rehabilitation. PHOTO: MONIR UDDIN ANIK

Rethinking Disaster Response: We ignore indigenous knowledge at our peril

Natural disasters such as floods, cyclones, heatwaves, or droughts create vulnerabilities in ecosystems and human life.

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples / Indigenous women know how to nurture nature. We need to listen to them.

Indigenous women's traditional knowledge and practices can help us to survive with nature instead of abusing it. In Bangladesh, their inherent value are yet to be fully understood and duly recognised by the scientific community, development practitioners and policymakers alike.