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Eco-colonialism?

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Hajong and Chakma Communities in Bangladesh : Ethnobiological practices help sustainable development

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Hajong and Chakma Communities in Bangladesh : Ethnobiological practices help sustainable development

According to United Nations World Commission of Environment and Development, sustainable development means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Just click and wonder Hajong community lives in Mymensingh, Sherpur districts and Chakma in Chittagong district. One in plain land and another in hill area. The article presents here ethnobiological practices of two communities which are sustainably used. Bangladesh covers an area of 1, 47,570 sq km with a population of 150 million. The total population of indigenous peoples in Bangladesh is approximately 3 million, out of which, 0.85 million live in Chittagong which covers an area of 13,295 sq km and others in greater Mymensingh and Sylhet region. The ethnobiological practices in these communities are common in Bangladesh. Involving practices are toems and taboos, sacred groves, traditional medicinal uses and traditional farming, social ethics and beliefs...

Eco-colonialism?

It is very clear that colonialisation bears some specific objectives that may be getting cheap raw materials, cheap labour and a captive market for product manufacturing. Here I have used the term eco-colonialism that means the colonialisation which is a growth to the exploitation of ecology. But how colonialisation damage the ecology? Colonialisation often changes diversified food production into a single crop for the colonizer’s market. For example, rice farming was once common in Gambia but with colonial rule so much of the best land was taken over by groundnuts for the European market that rice had to be imported to counter the mounting prospect of famine. Colonialism even forces peasants to replace food crops with cash crops. Though the third world countries have achieved independence but they want to develop in the context of modernisation. Vandana Shiva says this is male development. As a result of single crop production or monoculture or modern development, biodiversity has d...

Recently Bangladesh Journal of Life science has published my article titled - study on the conservation oriented totem and taboos in greater Mymensingh region of Bangladesh.

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