The hunger situation in Bangladesh continues to remain “serious”, with one in every seven persons suffering from undernourishment, according to the 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) released yesterday. The GHI, published by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, showed that Bangladesh has made strides in fighting hunger and undernourishment since 2000 due to steady economic growth. Yet, […]
Fish Revolution in Bangladesh
Scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, India, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, and Bangladesh, led by now IFPRI's Director of South Asia Dr. Shahidur Rashid, conducted research on fish farming in Bangladesh, which is the first of its kind. The study, which began in 2014 and continued until 2018, showed that three decades ago, fish […]
WEAI for Value Chains Final Report
Upon request of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), IFPRI conducted this study to support USAID in assessing the state of empowerment and gender parity of men and women along the agricultural value chain in the Feed the Future (FTF) Zone of Influence (ZOI) in Bangladesh. Specifically, IFPRI’s Policy Research and Strategy Support Program […]
Government measures to drive paddy prices up: nothing’s working
The government had announced a 20 percent incentive on rice export and a Tk 3,000 crore subsidy for farmers to buy agro tools. It had also doubled duties on rice import and nearly tripled its paddy procurement from farmers. But none of these measures could push paddy prices up in the last three months. Boro […]
Merit of Bt Brinjal Technology
Abdul Bayes | October 05, 2019 | The drivers of the current development of Bangladesh are many and they are diverse too. Ranking the drivers on their strengths may not be a simple exercise as hosts of multi-co-linearity problems would complicate the attempt. But apparently agricultural growth, especially of food grains could be touted as […]
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