The Integrated Food Policy Research Program (IFPRP) formally started its operations in December, 2016. The program focusing on providing research based evidence to the Government of Bangladesh enabling policymakers to make time befitting food policy decisions is jointly implemented by IFPRI, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The honorable […]
Knowledge, innovation hub on the cards
The Bangladesh government and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) have agreed to develop an in-country Knowledge and Innovation (K&I) Hub, for which the Governance Innovation Unit (GIU) in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) will act as a platform. The GIU and the IFPRI on Wednesday signed an agreement in this regard at a […]
Increasing trend of farm mechanization
A group of researchers from the Dhaka office of the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - Akhter Ahmed, Latiful Haque, Aminul Islam, Farha Sufian, and Salauddin Tauseef - analysed agricultural performance of Bangladesh based on a panel data set derived from Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) for 2011 and 2015. A number of […]
IFPRI, GIU ink deal to create knowledge, innovation hub
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Governance Innovation Unit (GIU) at Prime Minister's Office of Bangladesh have signed an agreement to create a knowledge and innovation (K&I) hub to initiate study and research to help end hunger, under-nutrition and poverty. GIU Director General Md Abdul Halim and IFPRI Director General Dr Shenggen Fan have […]
Women’s empowerment improves in 2012-15
The scenario of women empowerment in Bangladesh has improved between 2012 and 2015, as the share of disempowered women decreased from 73 per cent in 2012 to 59 per cent in 2015, a latest IFPRI study revealed. The study also found that about 40 per cent women remained in chronic disempowerment, while 31 per cent […]
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