On December 18, 2016, the Bangladesh Ministry of Agriculture organized a seminar for IFPRI to present the changing scenario of Bangladesh agriculture. IFPRI Country Representative in Bangladesh Dr. Akhter Ahmed situated Bangladesh's agricultural progress in an historical context using various years of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data. Then, using comparing two rounds of IFPRI's […]
BIHS Round 1
PRSSP’s Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) is the most comprehensive, nationally representative household survey conducted to date in Bangladesh.
Crowdsourcing real-time data for rural farmers
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]