Bangladesh struggles with undernutrition in women and young children. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programmes can help address rural undernutrition. However, questions remain on the costs of multisectoral programmes.
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.
In this pilot project, we demonstrate the exciting potential of online freelancing for improving the incomes of poor youth in rural Bangladesh.
On September 18, 2020, USAID requested IFPRI to conduct 15 stakeholder consultations on three thematic areas across five districts in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence (ZOI) and Zone of Resilience (ZOR): Barishal, Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka, Jashore,
The Bangladesh Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSSP), implemented by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), designed and conducted a telephone survey to capture the effects of COVID-19 on farmers during the first
Custom hiring of labor- and cost-saving agricultural machinery services is increasingly common in South Asia.
It is widely acknowledged that unmitigated risks provide a disincentive for otherwise optimal investments in modern farm inputs.
Most index-based insurance products have been developed without giving explicit attention to gender. However, there is ample evidence that shocks affect men and women differently and that they allocate resources in different ways.
Weather-related production risks remain one of the most serious constraints to agricultural production in much of the developing world.
This brief summarizes an in-depth study on gendered aspects of willingness to pay for index-based agricultural insurance in Bangladesh.
Potential for Group-Based Approaches
Farmers in rural Bangladesh face multiple sources of uninsured risk to agricultural production and household assets.