Bangladesh and Food security
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- The Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI 2012)
- D. Te Lintelo; L. Haddad; R. Lakshman / Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index, 2013
- The 2012 HANCI report finds that low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are fa...
- An Econometric Assessment of Household Food Security in Bangladesh
- R faridi 2010
- This paper investigates the determinants of household food security situation in Bangladesh. Different household characteristics seem to be strongly correlated with food security indicator which might be helpful in identifying the foo...
- Gender: A key dimension linking agricultural programs to improved nutrition and health
- R Meinzen-Dick / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
- Empirical evidence shows that increasing women’s control over land, physical assets, and financial assets serves to raise agricultural productivity, improve child health and nutrition, and increase expenditures on education, as ...
- Where the rain falls: climate change, food and livelihood security, and migration
- K. Warner / United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
- This comparative study highlights that rainfall variability and food insecurity are key drivers for human mobility. The empirical research is based on eight country case studies, including a 1,300 household survey and participatory re...
- Understanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh
- H. Wright / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- This paper analyses data from a household-level survey of 980 agricultural and fishing households in seven sites across southern Bangladesh. It examines the relationship between assets, livelihood strategies, food security and changes...
- Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- 2012
- Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’...
- Agriculture and food security in South Asia: a historical analysis and long run perspective
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2010
- This study has focused on the regional and national assessments of the potential effects of increasing population and changing climatic condition on food security in South Asian countries. The efforts have been put forth e eight count...
- Plunging into Food Insecurity
- R.A.M. Titumir / Unnayan Onneshan, 2006
- The report attempts to understand the implications of multilateral agricultural liberalisation on a food security situation of net-food importing developing country. Food security depends on an adequate supply, distribution, and acces...
- Monthly Economic Update: Food Prices and Inflation Trajectory
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2012
- Bangladesh has been experiencing a rising trend of food inflation in recent months at the backdrop of global hike of food grain prices. The food price rises created a range of macro-vulnerabilities in the country. One aspect is the im...
- Migration and living conditions in urban slums: implications for food security
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2012
- Migration to urban areas is a regular phenomenon but climate induced displacement forced to migrate to cities over the recent years is a matter of concern. Increased frequency and severity of natural disasters by climate change over t...
- Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP)
- The Chars Livelihoods Programme (CLP) works with extreme poor households living on island chars in north western Bangladesh, and aims to improve the livelihoods of over one million people. The CLP is jointly funded by UKaid through the Department for International Development and the Australian Government (AusAID), sponsored by the Rural Development and Co-operatives Division of the Government of...
