Bangladesh and Food security
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- A review in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan : benchmarking for performance improvement in urban utilities
- World Bank Office, Dhaka, 2010
- Performance benchmarking is a powerful tool to make service providers more accountable, and to measure progress while improving performance. This review examines the introduction of performance benchmarking in over 30 urban water util...
- Promoting ecosysterm-based adaptation practices and iterative learning in Bangladesh's drought-prone areas: livelihood adaptation to climate change project (LACC)
- Ecosystems and Livelihoods Adaptation Network, 2011
- The impacts of climate variability and change are global concerns, but in Bangladesh, where large parts of the population are vulnerable to a range of natural hazards, they are particularly critical. A continued trend of more frequent...
- Agriculture biodiversity and food security: two sides of a coin
- Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2011
- Biodiversity underpins the agriculture productivity. Agricultural biodiversity includes all components of biodiversity – at genetic, species and ecosystem levels – that are relevant to food and agriculture and that support...
- Food Poverty and Consequent Vulnerability of Children: A Comparative Study of Ethnic Minorities and Monga-Affected Households in Bangladesh
- R.K. khondakar 2010
- Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh, mostly concentrated in the south-eastern part (referred to as the SOUTH), comprise approximately 1 % of the total population. A large portion of these minority people live below the poverty line. Child...
- Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition: homestead food production in Bangladesh
- L. Iannotti; K. Cunningham; M. Ruel / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
- A critical yet often overlooked component of food security is diet quality. Even households who have access to sufficient amounts of food and calories may still lack essential micronutrients, increasing their risk for both short- and ...
- Food security and gender insights
- S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012
- This issue of insights shows how development policy and practice can potentially improve food security while supporting women’s empowerment. They can focus on women’s critical role as food producers, consum...
- Maintaining affordability and farm gate prices of rice in Bangladesh
- J.K. Basak / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
- Food security is a major concern in Bangladesh due to the ever-increasing population as well as agricultural commodities' heightening costs. This paper sheds light on possible solutions to the challenge facing the Bangladeshi governme...
- Biodiversity leads to food security: the case of Bangladesh
- M.A. Baten / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
- This research paper explains the relationship between food production and agricultural biodiversity, and analyses the impact of indiscriminate loss of agricultural biodiversity on food security. Bangladesh has been sufferin...
- Bangladesh's performance in ensuring food security
- Q. Shahabuddin / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
- This paper evaluates the performance of Bangladesh on the implementation of the ‘right to food’ in light of commitment made by the state. The article emphasizes on the progressive realization of rights in the pr...
- Six key success factors in the fight against hunger worldwide
- Morwenna Sullivan; Hugh Lort-Phillips; Aline Tinoco / Action Against Hunger, 2011
- This briefing paper, published by Action Against Hunger, seeks to understand why and how countries like Brazil, Peru, Mozambique, Malawi, and Bangladesh have managed to reduce undernutrition, while others have not. By pulling together...
- 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...
