Abstract:
Research findings reveal that current management practices imposed by both government and non-government agencies have seriously undermined local, traditional land and water management practices. The effects include: a dramatic increase in the non-Indigenous population resulting from an outsider brick-field industrial project; increased destitution, displacement, and deforestation of natural resources resulting from force, fraud, and manipulated occupation of forest and plain land; recent expansion of the Bangladesh Forest Department and private companies’ lumber plantation projects by outsiders; and increase in national and multinational corporations’ tobacco plantation projects.
