Rural Heritage April/May 2026

(Azfar et al., 2022). However, since political tensions erupted in bloody mass protests by students in August 2024, and the appointment of an interim government after the fall of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, governance instability affects the reform process and

finally public and rural services. Burdens of peasant women

On the Chars, low economic strength, inadequate infrastructure, low level of social development, lack of institutional capacity, and a higher dependency on the natural resource base, make farmers still particularly vulnerable to climate stimuli. Recognizing these vulnerabilities, FRIENDSHIP has developed many climate adaptation measures to address adverse effects of climate change based on existing coping mechanisms and practices. Knowledge on climate-resilient cropping calendars and seed varieties, as well as livestock farming is shared and discussed within so-called FFC (Friendship Farmers Club), which were founded on each of the Chars served by FRIENDSHIP. Each individual Farmers Club counts

Pesticides are still used all too carelessly on the Chars.

Discussing soil sampling in a Farmers Club.

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