Bangladesh - Super Exploitation and the Climate Crisis

7.30pm Wednesday 12th March 2014 at The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields NG7 6HX

Bangladesh - Super Exploitation and the Climate Crisis

7.30pm Wednesday 12th March 2014 at The Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields NG7 6HX

Badrul Alam is the President of Krishok Federation (BKF), the largest peasant federation in Bangladesh and has represented them on the leadership of La Via Campesina, the International Peasant Federation and is a leader of the Bangladesh Section of the Fourth International.

The BKF are heavily involved in campaigning against climate change. Bangladesh is one of the areas of the world most vulnerable to climate change, with sea levels rising faster than the global rate. Estimates suggest that up to 20million Bangladeshis in low-lying areas could lose their homes by 2050.

They have organised a series of climate caravans to take the message out to the people across Bangladesh itself and more widely to other parts of Asia and a central part of that work is teh promotion of food sovereignty as a sustainable alternative to agribusiness, hence their relationship with La Via Campesina.