Dhaka Landing

Monsoon rains fall in the humid heat of Bangladesh's capital. We travel by bicycle rickshaw through the traffic past the highrise apartment horizon of speculative capital, now crashed like the rest of the global economy. In Bangladesh, the garment industry has been badly hit by the recesssion, as too those middle classes who gambled on the stock market, and the state sector. Food prices have risen, felt especially by the poor. For the rickshaw wallah, another day amongst traffic horns and exhaust fumes, dodging buses and traffic cops. For me, a meeting with the Bangladesh Krishok Federation (the landless peasants movement) to discuss issues of food sovereignty and climate change and to plan a programme for my visit.