Background Between August-October 2017, there was an influx of Rohingya refugees into Cox’s Bazar district near the southeastern tip of Bangladesh—more than doubling the population living in the area. There, they joined more than 200,000 Rohingya displaced over the previous 20 years. Currently, around 1 million Rohingya live in Bangladesh. IFPRI conducted a study, “Food […]
International Open Data Day 2020
International Open Data Day 2020: Crowdsourcing Global Insights from National Data in Bangladesh By Akhter Ahmed and Julie Ghostlaw Introduction Collecting and sharing data and other information publicly is crucial for researchers, policy makers, and development practitioners to identify and navigate issues, crowdsource solutions, and make relevant, timely decisions. To mark International Open Data Day […]
Food Systems Dashboard Seminar
How do we improve our food systems? Our food systems are bankrupting our health systems, accelerating climate change and using natural resources in an unsustainable way. Most people agree they need to be transformed to change this. But how? Food systems are complex and offer many entry points for change. In addition, the data to […]
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 […]
Revolutionizing the collection of household data
This post was originally published on the IFPRI Research Blog. By Patrick Ward Can you recall how much money you spent on food last year? Or how many days of work you missed last summer? No doubt these are difficult questions to answer, especially if you are trying to answer off the top of your […]