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How the United States benefits from agricultural and food security investments in developing countries

BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (BIFAD), INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (IFPRI), ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC AND LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES (APLU). U.S. foreign agricultural assistance investments bring substantial economic, health, and security benefits to both developing countries and the United States. This report describes the food security investments of the U.S. Agency for International Development and how […]

Policy reforms to tap full potentials of aquaculture

Bangladesh has made a revolutionary progress in fish aquaculture during the last several decades. But, still there is need for some policy reforms to tap full potentials of the sector, speakers at a programme opined. Creating greater access to fish as a source of nutrition among poor households in the future will require these policy […]

Fish farming pulls 20 lakh out of poverty: study

More than 20 lakh of the 1.80 crore Bangladeshis who escaped poverty between 2000 and 2010 managed to do so because of aquaculture, said International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), raising the need for the government to give this area of agriculture special focus. The massive expansion of aquaculture in Bangladesh was a “blue revolution”, […]

Bangladesh’s Blue Revolution Opens Up New Avenue for Developing Countries

It is well recognized that Bangladesh has been vigorously executing large scale development projects to maintain its phenomenal growth rate of 8.2%. What is less known is that its small-scale sector has not been neglected and that this sector is also pulling itself by the bootstraps to be a major player in the country’s economic […]

1 in 7 Bangladeshis Undernourished

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, […]