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What my grandmother's rice field taught me about resilience

Barishal

Published 8 July 2026 Updated 11 November 2026 2 min read
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A reader-submitted essay on the people and places at the centre of the transition.

She never used the word resilience. She just kept three seed varieties in three clay pots.

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