In April 2024, IFPRI researcher Salauddin Tauseef and co-authors published the article, "Mobile phones, income diversification, and poverty reduction in rural Bangladesh" in Review of Development Economics. Abstract The widespread adoption of mobile phones presents the possibility of creating employment and self-employment opportunities. Although several studies have documented the impact of mobile phones on income, […]
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 […]
Designing More Profitable Agricultural Enterprise
Agricultural technologies such as genetically modified crops have potential to advance agricultural development and food security, but the effects on farmer profits and consumer and producer health outcomes are not well understood. To help fill this knowledge gap, IFPRI designed an experimental study to evaluate the impacts of Bt eggplant. From November 21—25, PRSSP researchers […]
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. […]
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 […]