Md., Atique Ashab and Rashid, Aminur (2021) Fishing at the frontier: Lived experiences from a riverine fishing community at the Bangladesh-India border. TBTI Global Publication Series . Too Big To Ignore, Canada.
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This chapter reveals how riverine fisheries serve as a livelihood option for vulnerable fishing communities and identifies the major challenges and stressors these communities face at the Bangladesh-India border. Riverine fishery plays a significant role in livelihood, food, nutritional security, employment, and culture for the local fishing communities; however, this community is continuously shrinking and displaced due to various natural and man-made reasons, particularly by a barrage in the upstream. The ‘Farakka Barrage’ extremely disrupted the natural riverine production systems, especially fisheries, through noticeably changing natural flow patterns and hindering migrations of fish. Most importantly, riverbank erosion threatens fishers’ livelihoods, leading to a devastating loss of homestead land while also changing border boundaries at the frontier. To shield the geophysical and socioeconomic vulnerability of fishers, the unprotected settlement should be safeguarded by efficient and environment-friendly embankments, and their livelihoods should be protected under existing social safety net programs.
| Item Type: | Books |
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| Keywords: | Fishing Communities, Bangladesh, India, Livelihoods, Vulnerability, Riverine Fisheries, Food Security, Nutrition, Employment, Culture, Migration, Social Security |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Jeeva ICSF Rajan |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2022 05:37 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Feb 2022 05:37 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/13161 |
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