Insights from TAFSSA's Agrifood Systems Assessment in Bangladesh By Archis Banerjee, Suman Chakrabarti, Aklima Parvin, Samuel Scott, Mahajabin Nur Khan, Esha Sarswat, and Julie Ghostlaw INTRODUCTION Food systems refer to the complex network of activities, processes, actors, and infrastructure involved from production through consumption of food. They intersect with every facet of our economy […]
Profitability in farming on the decline: study
Farmers are registering reduced profitability from paddy cultivation due to tightening of the rural labour market and declining real prices for the cereal grain, according to a joint study by two international research organisations. The study found that real agricultural wages have been rising gradually as people are moving out to non-farm sectors. Between 2011 […]
IFPRI workshop presents policy research on agri-food value chains and farm mechanization in Bangladesh
March 5, 2024, Dhaka, Bangladesh – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CGIAR, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, convened a workshop on “Agri-food value chains and farm mechanization in Bangladesh” at the Six Seasons Hotel in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The workshop explored the critical role of intermediaries within agri-food value […]
Working Paper – Evaluation of a livestock financing project in Bangladesh: Navigating operational, environmental, and behavioral challenges
Smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries have limited access to finance, due to the paucity of banks and other financial institutions in rural areas. As a result, banks and other formal financial institutions tend not to know much about farming as a business, and therefore they hesitate to extend credit to farmers. Such reluctance […]
BLOG – Bridging the smallholder finance gap: Collaborative research with WeGro in Bangladesh
Farmers in many low- and middle-income countries face a major financial gap, with available resources often insufficient to enable them to increase production—and putting many higher-value products with the greatest potential to increase incomes out of reach. Yet banks and other formal financial institutions shy away from lending to smallholder farmers. There are several reasons […]