Women in coastal Bangladesh are losing their uteruses to the climate crisis

Water is life – except when that water is slowly killing you. This is the reality for millions of women in coastal Bangladesh who are subjected to reproductive health issues due to rising sea levels. On a crisp September morning 14 years ago, I climbed down the riverbank with my fishing net and stepped into

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Tackling the climate crisis – with a flower: A farmer’s diary

Extreme soil salinity is rendering thousands of hectares of farmland in coastal Bangladesh barren for months of every year. This slow-onset impact of the climate crisis is forcing millions of farmers to abandon a centuries-old – and one of the most basic – livelihoods. But not all is lost. Ashim Shikari is a farmer adapting

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Scaling up crop insurance to tackle the global food crisis: Insights from Bangladesh

The world is already facing a global food crisis, and it is expected to worsen, with climate impacts anticipated to wipe out 30% of the world’s food production by 2050. Our biggest strength in facing this crisis are the people most exposed to it – smallholder farmers, who produce one-third of the world’s food. Insights

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We must act fast on both climate displacement and adaptation. It’s right and it’s smart.

As global leaders gather in Geneva, Switzerland, for the Global Refugee Forum on 13-15  December 2023, BRAC Global’s Executive Director, a global champion in safeguarding people on the move, is calling for policy direction and investment to address climate displacement and support adaptation initiatives in the global south. With the climate crisis unfolding into a

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