How can data be used to better understand market development, the spread of disease, or even the spread of ideas and innovations among rural Bangladeshi farmers? IFPRI-Bangladesh has been providing technical assistance to the one-year project Crowdsourcing Rural Data Collection, launched in northern Bangladesh in December 2015 by the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia. […]
Improving Social Safety Nets
Social safety nets combined with nutrition behavior-change communication reduces childhood stunting.
ANGeL Baseline Seminar
IFPRI-PRSSP, in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, will convene a seminar to disseminate findings from the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) baseline survey. ANGeL's baseline was conducted for 4,000 households in 16 districts across Bangladesh from late 2015 to early 2016. It collected unique data, including individual dietary intake data for all household members, anthropometric measurements for all […]
ANGeL’s Community Nutrition Workers are Project Ambassadors
Through field-level trainings for farm households, the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL) project is exploring how who trains you—a man or a woman—affects behavior change. In the ANGeL Project, female community nutrition workers (CNWs) are key conduits of nutrition knowledge. IFPRI and Helen Keller International recently brought together 25 CNWs for a focused training on […]
Field Visit for Agricultural Technologies Study
Agricultural technologies offer new opportunities for improving agricultural production, consumption, farmer incomes, and livelihoods. Tapping into this potential, PRSSP researchers and the Bangladesh government are in the early stages of designing an impact evaluation study on genetically modified eggplant varieties. In November 2016, the research team will visit Jessore in southern Bangladesh to lay the […]