Bangladesh has made a revolutionary progress in fish aquaculture during the last several decades. But, still there is need for some policy reforms to tap full potentials of the sector, speakers at a programme opined. Creating greater access to fish as a source of nutrition among poor households in the future will require these policy […]
Fish farming pulls 20 lakh out of poverty: study
More than 20 lakh of the 1.80 crore Bangladeshis who escaped poverty between 2000 and 2010 managed to do so because of aquaculture, said International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), raising the need for the government to give this area of agriculture special focus. The massive expansion of aquaculture in Bangladesh was a “blue revolution”, […]
Book Launching: “The Making of a Blue Revolution”
Rapid growth in Bangladesh’s aquaculture production has lowered fish prices, increased protein consumption, and reduced poverty. What has driven this transformation? On October 27, 3:30 PM - 5:20 PM Dhaka time, IFPRI launched the new book, The Making of a Blue Revolution: Enablers, Impacts, and the Path Ahead for Aquaculture in Dhaka. Read more & Livestream […]
Bangladesh’s Blue Revolution Opens Up New Avenue for Developing Countries
It is well recognized that Bangladesh has been vigorously executing large scale development projects to maintain its phenomenal growth rate of 8.2%. What is less known is that its small-scale sector has not been neglected and that this sector is also pulling itself by the bootstraps to be a major player in the country’s economic […]