Increased soil salinity for sea-level rises is likely to make nearly 0.2 million coastal residents internally displaced in Bangladesh, a study showed. The climate-induced changes will force them to migrate to inland areas to find alternate livelihoods, it said on Monday. The study examined, for the first time, a complex link between flooding, soil salinity, […]
A Catch-22 in Safety Net Targeting in Bangladesh (BLOG)
A Bureaucratic Catch-22: Study in Bangladesh Shows How Safety Nets Can Overlook the Poorest Around the world, governments and development partners make hard choices on how to invest their limited resources to help the needy. But in a country like Bangladesh, where almost one fourth of the population of 165 million lives below the poverty line, […]
TMRI Sustainability of Impacts Study
Safety nets can be very effective at improving food security and reducing poverty, but have had limited or mixed effects on improving nutrition. This begs the question: is there something other than resources that's needed to improve child nutrition, particularly to accelerate reductions in child stunting? IFPRI designed and WFP implemented the Transfer Modality Research […]
Leveraging Social Protection for Improved Nutrition
Child stunting–that is, when children are too short for their age–is a serious issue. It is a consequence of inadequate nutrition and health, which reduce the chance that children will develop well, do well in school, earn a good living, and escape poverty. Although stunting in Bangladesh has dropped a lot over the past two […]
IFPRI-FAO Global Conference: Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition
IFPRI and FAO are organizing a global conference on Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition in late November 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand. This event is aligned with the imperatives of the Compact2025 initiative and the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition to make accelerated progress on hunger and undernutrition by 2025 to pave the way for achieving all […]
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