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Floating gardens in Bangladesh: a means to rebuild lives after devastating flood [1]

Floating gardening, a form of hydroponics using aquatic plants as the medium, is a traditional cultivation system in southern Bangladesh practiced for year-rouund seedling and vegetable production. The livelihoods of marginalized people of the wetlands in North-eastern Bangladesh are often constrained by 7-8 months water stagnation due to floods. A pioneering attempt at scaling up floating gardening in this haor region coincided with repeated, devastated floods in 2007.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
01/01/2011
Haseeb Md Irfanullah [3], Md Abul Kalam Azad [4], Md Kamruzzaman & et al [5]
Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge [6]
10
1
31-38
Tags:
Agriculture [7], Bangladesh [8], South Asia [9], Food Security [10], Green Spaces [11], Food Supply [12], Wetlands [13], Traditional Knowledge [14], Disaster Management [15], Nutrition [16], Climate Adaptation [17], Aquatic Plants [18]

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[2] http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/11064/1/IJTK%2010(1)%2031-38.pdf
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/haseeb-md-irfanullah
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/md-abul-kalam-azad
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/indian-journal-traditional-knowledge
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bangladesh
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[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wetlands
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[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/disaster-management
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nutrition
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-adaptation
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/aquatic-plants