Speakers at an in-country training workshop stressed the need for increasing grain reserve available to households to meet post-disaster needs and improve the efficiency of grain shortage. The workshop on 'Concepts and Tools for Food Policy Analysis' was held at BIAM Foundation Auditorium in the city with Arifur Rahman Apu, Additional Director General of the Food Directorate in the chair.
The meeting was addressed, among others, by Additional Secretary of Food Ms Shamima Sultana, Dr Craig Meisner, Senior Research Fellow of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Professor Juan E Andrade of the University of Illinois, Dr Suresh Babu of IFPRI, Dr Kazi Ali Toufique, Acting Director General of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, Dr Shahidur Rahman, Senior Research Fellow IFPRI.
The training program was designed to move to a modern, digitized food management system from the traditional management system that has been in place for decades. The training has been organized to help better understand the basic concepts of food and nutrition security policy and gain first-hand experience of doing food policy analysis using Bangladesh data. The organizers opined that the training will enable policy implementers to play pivotal roles as the government adopts modern food policies and storage systems.
This article was originally published on the Asian Age.