The Improvement of Ethnic Farmers’ Livelihoods by Agroforestry Practices in The Madhupur Garh, Bangladesh

DOI: 10.22161/ijeab.114.2

Abstract:
In Bangladesh, agroforestry has significantly replaced traditional forest management with more people-centered strategies due to the country's shrinking forestland. Products from agroforestry production methods help millions of small farmers around the world meet their basic necessities and improve their standard of living. In Bangladesh, the advantages of agroforestry systems and their tactics for promoting livelihood success are sometimes not consistently acknowledged. The study's goal was to explore viable local agroforestry practices and to ascertain how they might affect the development of the livelihoods and means of subsistence of ethnic farmers in Bangladesh's Madhupur Garh. The study identified five main types of local potential agroforestry practices, which are Acacia-Pineapple-Papaya, Acacia-Pineapple-Ginger, Acacia-Pineapple-Turmeric, Mango-Pineapple-Papaya, and Acacia Pineapple-Aroid based agroforestry that are cultivated throughout the Madhupur Garh, using a variety of qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques. Additionally, these agroforestry techniques have concurrently improved the human, social, financial, natural, and physical capital of ethnic farmers. This suggests that the area's prospective agroforestry techniques have greatly improved farmers' agroforestry production knowledge and skills, as well as their knowledge of and access to educational institutions, home infrastructures, healthcare facilities, local road systems, and social networks. As a result, the study came to the conclusion that locally viable agroforestry techniques like Acacia-Pineapple-Aroid had improved the livelihood of the ethnic farmers, which in turn helped the community as a whole.

Keywords:
Livelihood capitals, Agroforestry, Income Generation, Ethnic Community, Bangladesh.

Article Info:
Received: 25 Dec 2023; Received in revised form: 23 Aug 2024; Accepted: 24 Sep 2025; Available online: 06 Jul 2026

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