Our Approach

In Bangladesh, the paradigm of inequality and injustice exists not only in the material domain in terms of natural resource extractivism but in the scientific, cultural, and political domains. The development discourse of Bangladesh has embedded exploitative economic structures that devastated local ecology and displaced the native skills, capacity, and knowledge. The erasure of the memory of the native knowledge and practices and the loss of consciousness of the ecological abundance of the land and water of Bangladesh have enabled a policy and development intervention regime that has strongly favoured the social elites, political establishment, and the chain of actors in exploitative global trade. The majority population is displaced and dispossessed of their land, water, and ancestral professions, and are replaced by industrial agriculture, polluting industries, and sweatshops. These majority populations were the planetary stewards, who nurtured our lands and water to establish the historic abundance of Bengal. By empowering Planetary Stewardship, we can reconfigure and reimagine development for a just and welfare-based society.