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 […]
A4NH and icddr,b Join Hands to Strengthen Food Systems
In 2017, IFPRI partnered with Wageningen University & Research on a five-year Food Systems for Healthier Diets project, launched in Bangladesh and several other countries globally. The program focuses on food systems through the agri-food value chains impact pathway and the associated policy enabling required to accelerate food system innovation, scaling, and anchoring. On October […]
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 […]
ANGeL Scale-Up Meeting
On 13 October 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture hosted a meeting to discuss scaling up the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project nationally, which was chaired by the Secretary of Agriculture Mr. Md. Nasiruzzaman. The meeting provided an overview of the ANGeL project, plans to conduct a baseline survey to measure progress national scale-up, […]
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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