Bangladesh and Food security
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- Impact of Increasing Landlessness on Access to Food: Experience of Small and Marginal Farmers in Rural Bangladesh
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2009
- In Bangladesh, food insecurity remains a reality for millions, including farmers and landless labourers. Due to increasing population, unjust market intervention, poor governance, medium and small farmers are losing their productive l...
- Assessment of the Budget FY11 for the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management
- 2011
- As a part of series of seminars for the Members of the Parliament, BIDS, with the support of PROGATI/USAID, organized the second seminar titled "Assessment of the Budget FY11 for the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management" on May 7,...
- Rice Technologies: Strategic Choices and Policy Options
- M. Hossain / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
- This Policy Brief discusses the issues of maintaining national food self-sufficiency in Bangladesh in the face of emerging challenges in the agriculture sector. It has been funded by the UK Department for International Development (DF
- Rethinking Food Security Strategy: Self-sufficiency or Self-reliance
- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
- This Policy Brief discusses whether Bangladesh should continue to pursue a national food security strategy based on self-reliance or return to its earlier policy of food self-sufficiency through domestic production.
- Rethinking Food Security Strategy: Self-sufficiency or Self-reliance
- 2009
- This Policy Brief discusses whether Bangladesh should continue to pursue a national food security strategy based on self-reliance or return to its earlier policy of food self-sufficiency through domestic production.
- Implications for Human Development - Impacts of Food Price Volatility on Nutrition and Schooling
- Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
- The paper highlights the impacts of the 2007/08 food price inflation on nutrition and on school attendance. It draws on the results of studies commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Even at times of av...
- Living on a Spike
- N Hossain / Oxfam, 2011
- The human face of global food price rises is often missing amongst the abstract discussions of macro-economic trends and global food price indices. In order to understand the impact of the rise in global food prices through much of 20...
- Practical and evidence-based policy actions to achieve food security in the context of climate change
- J. Beddington (ed); M. Asaduzzaman (ed); M. Clark (ed) / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change. It reasons that w...
- The Right to Food: Bangladesh Perspectives
- Q. Shahabuddin / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2010
- A large number of the people in Bangladesh are deprived of basic economic and social rights. The poor in Bangladesh do not even meet the minimum nutritional requirement to maintain a healthy body. Hence, poverty in Bangladesh, as else...
- An assessment of research needs for food security in Bangladesh
- 2007
- A key output planned under the National Food Policy Capacity Strengthening Programme (NFPCSP) is a Research Needs Digest (RND) that will serve as a reference for food security related research and as a basis for inviting research prop...
- 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...
