Zakir Md. Hossain

After returning from Wageningen University, the Netherlands with the masters degree from “Ecological Agriculture” in 1999, I could have try to joining any research Organisation or Project as a researcher in an air conditioned office. But I was dare enough to work with other Krisoks* under the burning sun, felt the dream and need of the very locality where I was born in Bangladesh. I initiated the tiny Farmers’ Research Institute “Krisoker Saar (Farmers’ Voice)”. Leaving all the glittering lifestyle, I really wanted to be a simple krisok, to do the researches pertinent to local development by integrating all people in the samaj**, to putting the voices of the locality into different National and International fora and thus to securing our rights. While working with the children I spontaneously trying to enter their wonderful wisdom and leads them to the entrance of their own mind and thus sow the seeds of humanitarian nature.

• Krisok is the Bangla term of farmers to the context of Bangladesh

** Samaj is the traditional & strong management body in a village