Bangladesh is home to the largest river delta in the world and known to be one of the most populated countries in the world. The pressure over land is high, also because Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world and highly vulnerable to climate change-related events. A preliminary report on the 2019 Agricultural Census suggests that one quarter of rural households are landless.
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Land Area
13,017,000 ha
GDP/Capita
5,911 USD
Total population
169,356,000
Urban population
36.6 %
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27 June 2023
The rural poor who have weak or no land tenure rights are among the most vulnerable to the direct effects of climate change, both because insecure land tenure reduces the incentives and capacities to take good care of the land to mitigate /adapt to the effects of climate change, and because without…
23 June 2023
Climate change making Bangladesh's floods worse – DW – 06/23/2022
11 May 2023
Bangladesh, with its new Forest Conservation Bill of 2023, is on the brink of a momentous shift in its forest management practices, with two new laws set to revolutionize the sector. These laws, which will replace the colonial-era Forest Act of 1927, have been hailed as a “paradigm shift” and will…
Despite the equitable share in agricultural labour, agricultural land ownership is rare for women, and even then there are many cases of land grabs from women by men.
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05 December 2023
Climate-change induced disasters and communities’ responses to protect themselves and design solutions have become a top priority on the climate agenda. This webinar aimed to draw attention to the underexplored nexus of climate change, natural disasters, and tenure (in)security through…
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A century has passed since women in Undivided India, now divided into several countries of South Asia, demanded equal rights in property — especially land, the most important means of production in developing economies. The struggle continued after Independence. Today, the resultant legal reforms…
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