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According to the recently concluded United Nations Food System Summit 21 (UNFSS21), realignment of food system is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals related to eliminating hunger and malnutrition in all forms, poverty reduction an
The 2018 Bangladesh Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) follows IFPRI's Standard Nexus SAM approach, by focusing on consistency, comparability, and transparency of data.
Food is the most important basic need for sustenance and survival, and the right to food is among the fundamental human rights.
Securing Food for All in Bangladesh presents an array of research that collectively addresses four broad issues: (1) agricultural technology adoption; (2) input use and agricultural productivity; (3) food security and output markets; and (4) pover
Climbing up the ladder and watching out for the fall: Poverty dynamics in rural Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the pace of economic growth accelerated in recent years, with real GDP growing at a rate of 6.5 percent on average per year between 2010 and 2016, reaching 7.3 percent in 2017—the highest in the country’s history.
In Bangladesh, the dry season of October to March is characterised by falling water tables, reduction in the discharge of major rivers, drying water channels, and salinity intrusion, particularly in the southwest coastal region.
Evidence accumulated from many developing countries during the past 50 years has demonstrated that yield-enhancing cultivars are vital inputs to sustained agricultural productivity growth, particularly in land-scarce countries where yield growth c
Despite declining arable agricultural land, Bangladesh has made substantial progress in boosting domestic food production, improving access to food by increasing household income, and enhancing nutritional outcomes
Onion is a key ingredient in most Bangladeshi meals, so its sudden price spurt in the domestic market in early-July 2013 raised deep concerns among the people and the government.
Bangladesh has achieved commendable progress in agriculture especially in increasing food grains production over the past few decades.
National and household food security in Bangladesh have been greatly enhanced over the past two decades by policies that have allowed a major public foodgrain distribution and relatively large pub-lic stocks to co-exist with private sector trade.
Bangladesh has a long history of catering to the consumption needs of its population through public distribution of food-grains—rice and wheat—stored across an extensive network of warehouses all over the country.
For almost fifty years, the Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) of the Ministry of Food has played a role in policy analysis and planning related to the Public Foodgrain Distribution System (PFDS) and food policy in Bangladesh.
Price instability is a fact of life. In a market economy, domestic prices change in response to changes in supply, consumer preferences, policy, world prices, and other factors.
Bangladesh has successfully improved national food security over the last two decades, primarily by increasing rice production and consumption.
Micronutrients, often referred to as vitamins and minerals are vital to healthy development, disease prevention, and wellbeing.
Climate change will have an impact on natural resources, water being one of them, affecting the availability of water including increasing the intensity of floods and droughts.
Incentivising doctor attendance in rural Bangladesh: A latent class analysis of a discrete choice experiment
Objective: Doctor absenteeism is widespread in Bangladesh, and the perspectives of the actors involved are insufficiently understood.