Climate Change X Agriculture

Description

In Bangladesh, limited access to formal financial services prevents smallholder farmers from investing in productive assets, adopting new technologies, and absorbing shocks. Moreover, the existing gender gap in access to agricultural finance warrants greater attention to ensure balanced inclusion of female farmers.

Under this investment, IFPRI plans to create clear foundations for dialogue and collaborative action on topics at the interface of climate change, agriculture, access to finance, and gender. Based on knowledge generated during the first phase of the investment, IFPRI plans to identify a set of promising interventions, largely focused on financial products and services (including risk mitigation strategies), that could be tested.

For more information, please contact the Principal Investigator M. Mehrab Bakhtiar.

Climate Change X Agriculture: Project Detail

STATUS: Active

DURATION: 2022-2025

FUNDING: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

PARTNER(S): Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Policy Support Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE)

IFPRI Bangladesh Projects

IFPRI has over four decades of experience conducting research and outreach in Bangladesh. IFPRI has undertaken rigorous evaluations using randomized controlled trials of several programs in Bangladesh, including Alive & Thrive, IFPRI-WFP’s Transfer Modality Research Initiative (TMRI), and the IFPRI-designed and Ministry-led Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project. IFPRI has also designed and conducted large-scale household surveys like the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey and has proven capacity to administer rapid yet rigorous phone surveys amid the pandemic.

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