Baira The Floating Garden for Sustainable Livelihood

Author/Contributor: Haseeb Md. Irfanullah, Md. Belayet Hussain and Tajul Islam Chowdhury 

Published by: MoEF (GoB), UNDP, BCAS, IUCN-Bangladesh 

Year: 2005

About the Book

Community Base Floodplain Resources Management in the Madhumati Floodplain, one of the interventions under SEMP promotes alternative livelihood options through Baira farming. The purpose of the present account is to illustrate the Baira extension initiatives taken under the SEMP. Local knowledge and participatory planning and interventions to promote baira farming as an alternative livelihood option. Community people are interested in baira farming and adopted the technique under the initiatives. The extension of baira cultivation as an environment friendly livelihood options in the wetlands of Bangladesh to poverty to mitigate and to adapt to the consequences of climate change could be promited.