Food insecurity in Bangladesh returns to pre-Covid level: IFPRI (Financial Express)

Financial Express (Bangladesh) published an article about new findings from IFPRI. IFPRI found that the moderate or severe food-insecurity situation in Bangladesh returned to the pre-pandemic level by January this year, which the households experienced after the Covid-19 pandemic hit Bangladesh last year. It said with the onset of the pandemic, combined with the lockdown restrictions imposed from March through May 2020, moderate and severe food insecurity tripled to 45 percent. The study authors also stated, “A large majority of rural households are understandably worried about their access to food, given that their coping strategies are not sustainable over the longer term. Households cannot indefinitely buy food on credit or borrow money.”