Practical Action’s Disappearing Land project is supporting communties affected by river erosion:

Increased flooding has produced enormous river erosion and whole communities have been displaced from their homes. Every family had been displaced at least once, some as many as 17 times. These people are currently living in overcrowded and inadequate accommodation on the slopes of the flood defence embankment, which is government-owned land. Practical Action is working to improve the livelihoods of the affected people, training individuals in new skills such as sewing and weaving and some ‘flood friendly’ income-generation activities, such as fish cage culture (growing Tilapia in large fish cages), fish traps and duck rearing. Another part of the project focuses around food security, with innovative techniques to help people cultivate crops in the sandy, infertile land that is left after the monsoon’s erosion.