After working in Bangladesh for 30 years, IFPRI officially opens its doors.
Interactive Agriculture Extension and Advisory Workshop
To sustainably reduce global hunger and poverty through enhanced local capacity for rural innovation, IFPRI and CARE International are partnering with the Digital Green’s USAID-funded project Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC). DLEC will be conducting a workshop in December 2016 for agricultural extension and advisory services stakeholders. Participants from national and regional agricultural extension networks will share their insights […]
Using evidence-based research to smooth regional disparities
Millions of farmers in the Teesta River Basin of northern Bangladesh struggle due to severe water shortages. Together with CASEED and APSU, IFPRI-Bangladesh conducted a government-commissioned study to develop an integrated agricultural strategy for the region. The study found that groundwater irrigation dominates the region, while the barrage provides only 2% due to the severe […]
Crowdsourcing real-time data for rural farmers
How can data be used to better understand market development, the spread of disease, or even the spread of ideas and innovations among rural Bangladeshi farmers? IFPRI-Bangladesh has been providing technical assistance to the one-year project Crowdsourcing Rural Data Collection, launched in northern Bangladesh in December 2015 by the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia. […]
Field Visit for Agricultural Technologies Study
Agricultural technologies offer new opportunities for improving agricultural production, consumption, farmer incomes, and livelihoods. Tapping into this potential, PRSSP researchers and the Bangladesh government are in the early stages of designing an impact evaluation study on genetically modified eggplant varieties. In November 2016, the research team will visit Jessore in southern Bangladesh to lay the […]