Publications

Journal Article
What adults in rural South Asia eat and when they eat it: Evidence from Bangladesh, India, and Nepal

Brief
Clustering shrimp farms in Bangladesh: A novel effort with mixed outcomes

Opinion Piece
How aid cuts could make vulnerable communities even less resilient to climate change
Datasets
Dataset
Clustering for global market access in Bangladesh: Endline survey
Dataset
Clustering for global market access in Bangladesh: Baseline survey
Dataset
TAFSSA District Agrifood Systems Assessment in Bangladesh 2023: Market Survey
Blogs

Four lessons for financial innovation in agrifood systems
Digital apps and other approaches for modernizing value chains.

Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day: Lessons from research on the food environment in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Viet Nam
Keys to improving diets and nutrition.

Applying the Women’s Empowerment Metric in National Statistical Systems (WEMNS) to build gender equity
A tool to collect key data sometimes missing from household surveys.
Events

23rd International Congress of Nutrition (ICN)
IFPRI is participating in the 23rd International Congress of Nutrition (ICN), hosted by the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) on August 24-29 in Paris, France. The theme of this year’s congress is “Sustainable Food for Global Health,” bringing together experts to discuss evidence and innovations in nutrition, sustainability, food science, and public health. IFPRI […]

10th annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week
IFPRI is participating in the 10th annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week from June 16-26, 2025. The ANH Academy Week is a series of annual events that bring together the community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers working at the intersection of agriculture, food systems, nutrition and health. The objective of the ANH Academy […]

World Food Prize 2024 Borlaug International Dialogue: Side Event on “Reducing the Impact of GHGs Through Managing Food Loss and Waste (FLW): Insights from Bangladesh, Guatemala, Malawi, and Nepal”
October 22, 2024 8:30 – 10:00 am (CDT) 9:30 – 11:00 am (EDT) Register IFPRI is participating in the 2024 Norman E. Borlaug International Dialogue. This year’s theme, “Seeds of Opportunity: Bridging Generations and Cultivating Diplomacy”, will emphasizes the vital role of integrating past wisdom, current innovations and the pressing needs of tomorrow, by leveraging […]
News
Fix social protection flaws instead of expanding outlay (The Daily Star)
Bangladesh must urgently redirect resources within its fragmented social protection system and scale up a handful of proven programs that directly benefit the poorest, says IFPRI’s Akhter Ahmed.
Agricultural growth key to accelerated poverty reduction in Bangladesh (Financial Express)
Senior research fellow and country representative, Akhter Ahmed writes in an op-ed for the Financial Express (Bangladesh) that the country “has witnessed substantial economic growth over the past decade, with an average annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 6.6 per cent between 2016 and 2022. Notably, the country experienced a 3.4 per cent increase in GDP in 2020, making Bangladesh one […]
VAT on synthetic felt production likely to fall (Business Post)
The Business Post (Bangladesh) published a story that cited IFPRI research. An IFPRI report states that 56 percent of Bangladesh’s fish comes from ponds. Fish farming in ponds has increased by almost six times in the last three decades. The current government has been providing incentives in various ways to encourage fish farming including reducing […]
Projects

Economywide Risk Assessments
Developed using advanced machine learning, simulation, and data mining techniques, these country briefs provide detailed risk assessments of key economic indicators. Produced by IFPRI, the……

Impact of COVID-19 on Food Value Chains
This project studied the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on eight food value chains in three countries: okra, tomatoes, and dairy in Burkina Faso; maize……