IFPRI is conducting an evaluation of a livestock financing mechanism implemented by WeGro and evaluated through the CGIAR Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for Inclusion and Sustainability Research Initiative. This initiative seeks to evaluate innovative projects that extend finance and logistics services across value chains in several countries, including Bangladesh. As part of this […]
Gender Matters: Exploring the Differential Impacts of the Global Food Crisis in Ghana, Honduras, and Bangladesh
How will the global food crisis affect men and women differently in Bangladesh, and what can be done to ensure gender-responsive solutions to the crisis? IFPRI is collecting data to understand the gendered impacts of rising food, fuel, and input prices in three countries affected by the global food crisis – Ghana, Honduras, and Bangladesh. […]
New Publication: Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem
New Publication In February 2023, IFPRI Research Fellow M. Mehrab Bakhtiar co-authored the article, "Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem," published in Journal of Development Economics. Abstract Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Due to social norms, each person’s sanitation investment decisions may depend on the decisions of […]
Shrimp sector lagging behind: study
Due to lack of facilities including investment, adequate land for extending shrimp farms, modernized technologies and support from the authorities concerned, country's shrimp farming hasn't improved in a desired level. Instead, in recent years, the promise of a shrimp boom has faded and the sector seems to be at an impasse. According to a study report […]
Brand tiger shrimp to boost output and export, suggest experts
Experts at a consultation put emphasis on branding Bangladeshi black-tiger shrimp (BTS) globally to boost export earnings from the sector that has remained stunted for more than a decade. They also suggested bringing massive infrastructural development in shrimp-growing regions with necessary investment to get desired output and exports from the newly-adopted vannamei species. The experts […]
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