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Homestead gardening boosts food security, incomes and sustainable livelihoods across Rajshahi’s drought-prone Barind tract region. Photo : BSS

Homestead gardening boosts self-reliance in rural Rajshahi

The initiative is helping ensure access to fresh and safe vegetables, reducing dependence on market produce often mixed with chemicals. It is also creating opportunities for cash crop production...

Photo: UNB

Dense fog blankets Lalmonirhat as signs of winter emerge

The depth of traditional wisdom embedded in our practices remains vastly underestimated. Photo: Collected

Beyond superstition: Rethinking rural wisdom

A boom in content creation is turning villages into hubs of creativity, employment, and digital storytelling. Photo: TBS Collage

From fields to feeds: How content creation is transforming rural Bangladesh

Rather than a right, education is a risk, a luxury, and too often, a lost dream in rural Bangladesh. Photo: TBS

When books compete with bread: The harsh trade-offs of education in rural Bangladesh

Banks disbursed Tk19,215 crore of agriculture, rural credit in 7 months

Banks disbursed Tk19,215 crore of agriculture, rural credit in 7 months

Illustration: TBS

Trust Bank expanding rural coverage to boost agribusiness

A file photo of outgoing Planning Minister MA Mannan. Photo: Collected

Goal now is to build world-class infrastructure up to rural level: Planning minister

Broken rural roads of despair

Broken rural roads of despair

Project SWAPNO has so far been implemented in 22 districts of Bangladesh, benefiting 64,980 people. Photo: Courtesy

Project SWAPNO: Marico teams up with the govt to empower rural women 

Photo: Reuters

Rural India sinks deeper into debt as Covid-19 wipes out work

Barkha Dutt

Covid-19 and the invisibilisation of rural India

Mohammad Anisur Rahman, director of Aarong Dairy. Sketch/TBS

Aarong Dairy was founded to change fortune of rural poor