Prothom Alo (Bangladesh) published an article on the condition of food security during the COVID-19 outbreak as it pertains to rice. County Director, IFPRI-Bangladesh and Senior Research Fellow Akhter Ahmed proposed several ways to prevent increased food insecurity. Ahmed states that the coronavirus could spread further affecting the rice sales on the open market. He added that everyone must be fed during the lockdown of the country and it must be a diet containing not only nutritious rice, but oil and pulses. Ahmed also suggested that safety nets like cash assistance (perhaps through work as part of a job creation program) would be helpful to the poor in Bangladesh.
