New Publication In March 2023, IFPRI researchers Razin Kabir, Muhammad Nahian Bin Khaled, Sudha Narayanan, and Shahidur Rashid published the article, "Shocks and the determinants of resilience: Fish and shrimp value chains in Bangladesh after Covid-19" in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. Abstract There is little systematic evidence on the resilience of South Asian agri-food […]
Food Loss and Waste in Fruit and Vegetable Supply Chains
Context According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), about one-third of all food produced around the globe is lost or wasted. This is particularly egregious in a world where one in nine persons is food insecure, and widespread food affordability concerns in low- and middle-income countries have resulted from COVID-related value chain […]
IFPRI, Bimstec join hands to advance causes of food security
Director General of the Washington-based global food policy think tank International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Dr Johan Swinnen reached Dhaka on Saturday to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec). Headquartered in Dhaka, Bimstec is a regional organization (established in 1997) with […]
Blog: Supply- and demand-side barriers to reach uninsured farmers: Field-level insights on agricultural microinsurance in Bangladesh
By M. Mehrab Bakhtiar, Md. Aminul Karim, Raisa Shamma, Md. Redoy, and Julie Ghostlaw In Bangladesh, farmers are highly vulnerable to various types of shocks. Access to agricultural finance is critical for mitigating the impact of shocks on smallholder farmers. While microcredit has become a major tool for promoting poverty reduction, economic empowerment, and gender […]
Consumers feel the heat of war everywhere
The Daily Star (Bangladesh), in its review of the impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war on the people of Bangladesh, quotes a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute released in July [2022] which said "Since the wheat grain supply is highly dependent on imports, we expect changes in world prices to have a relatively large effect on […]
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