Water for food in the coastal area of Sundarbans
Project Location: Tala & Assasuni Upazila of Satkhira District
Project Period: February 2016- July 2018
Financed by: Fondazione L’Albero Della Vita Onlus, Italy
Total Amount: 96,918.31 Euro
Direct Beneficiaries: 380
The interventions include activities addressed to carry out important works to ensure that beneficiaries have the water resources available for agriculture; to train the beneficiaries on new agricultural practices; to start up local viable alternatives that households can use in terms of micro income-generating activities especially in the domestic breeding; raise awareness about climate change and its effects on the destruction of natural resources.
Specific objective:
To contribute reducing poverty and social exclusion in India and Bangladesh, in the area known as the Sundarbans.
Specific objective:
To contribute reducing poverty and social exclusion in Bangladesh, in the area known as the Sundarbans.
Activities:
- Community Training in water management
- Renovation of land and channels and construction of water collection points
- Cleaning and excavation of the existing channels
- Construction of the infrastructures for the water flow control
- Introduction of technologies for water management and mitigation of water logging
- Community based natural resource initiative
- Support to the agricultural component
- Training of the beneficiaries on technologies and practices of agricultural production in salty soil
- Development of plan of improving of the household economy – livelihood planning
- Training in domestic breeding