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 […]
Shrimp sector plagued by structural problems: Experts
Experts said that Bangladesh’s shrimp production sector continues to be plagued by significant structural problems although there have been some improvements in yields and farmers’ adoption of modern technologies, including in farm and feed management. They were addressing a press conference at the Centre for Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) auditorium […]
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