The livelihoods of Bangladeshi people, especially the grass roots level poor living around floodplain beels, are largely dependent on floodplain resources. Their nutrition, incomes and other day-to-day needs are fulfilled by the nearby floodplain beels. Semi-natural diverse floodplains are highly productive ecosystems providing important benefits that exceed the productivity of intensive agricultural systems. These benefits, sometimes described as ‘goods and services’ including the functions of groundwater recharge, pollution abatement, soil fertility. Wetland products including fish, fuel wood, wild plants for food, and fodder. Wetlands are also an important aesthetic component of the landscape. Floodplains have many other uses and benefits that are essential to communities, industrial and agricultural activities.
Thus floodplains are multiple resource systems with many different types of users and different type of stakeholders.
Agriculturalists view the floodplains as rice production fields. The fisheries sector sees floodplains as fish production grounds. Overall the national emphasis has been given to produce more rice ignoring other benefits and products thus converting natural wetlands into rice fields. To the community dwelling in and around a floodplain it is their livelihood not just a rice field. Floodplains provide many products and services which have been utilized by many people in rural communities for generations. Wetlands also are the significant for local and regional environment including biodiversity conservation.
The diverse resource system and the stakeholders’ indicate an integrated management of these resources. The type of training like Integrated Floodplain Management: Methods and Approaches may help people in this regard. The aim of training fort he people living in this type of areas may be to shake the targeted participants both cognitively and emotionally and this may be prepared them in planning programs, motivating stakeholders; institutionalize integrated fund management through consensus building among stakeholders.
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