Battling the Twin Crises of the 21st Century & Stories of Community Resistance in Asia-Pacific: The Case of Bangladesh

Nevertheless, like the responsibility for the food crisis, the imperialist states, TNCs and financial institutions are dodging the responsibility for the climate crisis. [...] There is the need therefore to counter the corporate agenda with researches on the ground that expose the real causes of food and climate crises and the neoliberal approaches to the crises. [...] The seed preservation practice is more common among the indigenous 6 farmers of the Highland (75.0%) than Bengali farmers of the Plainland (43.1%). [...] More than three-quarters (78.7%) of the poor households in Bangladesh does not have the purchasing power to buy food at the current market price even in the normal situation. [...] On the other hand more than one-tenth of the poor indigenous households in hilly regions of the Bangladesh had sold labor/crops in advance to overcome food crisis during the last 12 months.