Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), Dhaka | May 17, 2026 On May 17, the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC) hosted the 10th meeting of the CGIAR Advisory Committee (CAC) — a biannual forum where international agricultural research centers align their work with national priorities. Hosted by the CGIAR Science Program on Scaling for Impact (S4I), […]
Fall in real prices of rice benefits consumers, hurts farmers
Real prices of rice have fallen in the decade from 2010 to 2020, benefiting consumers but generating lower real incomes for producers, according to a paper presented at an event in Dhaka yesterday. However, real prices of the staple food climbed in the years following the turn of the decade. Real prices are those which […]
Workshop explores intermediaries’ role in agri-food value chains
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CGIAR, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, organized a workshop on "Agri-food value chains and farm mechanization in Bangladesh" at the Six Seasons Hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Tuesday. The workshop explored the critical role of intermediaries within agri-food value chains in Bangladesh in […]
Book Chapter – Mobile Money Mitigates the Negative Effects of Weather Shocks
IFPRI researcher Salauddin Tauseef and co-authors published the chapter, “Mobile Money Mitigates the Negative Effects of Weather Shocks: Implications for Risk Sharing and Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh” in a book published by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). The results show that large rainfall shocks negatively affect food and nonfood consumption, but the adoption of […]
Post-Covid price inflation drives up poverty
At least 27.51 lakh more Bangladeshis fell into poverty in 2022 due to the global food price hike and post Covid-19 impacts, according to a paper by a researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). "The Covid-19 was the main driver of higher poverty in Bangladesh. But the world price spike in 2022 […]
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