Bangladesh and Food security
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- A Summary of the Second International Workshop on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
- M. Gutiérrez; L. Mead / International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2007
- The bulletin describes the second community based adaptation (CBA) workshop held in Dhaka in February 2007. The workshop aimed to share the latest developments in community-based adaptation programmes, priorities and solutions ...
- Breaking down the complexity of vulnerability into manageable components with communities to reduce their exposure to hazards and shocks
- E. Chiwaka; R. Yates / ActionAid International, 2004
- This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disast...
- Food for Schooling programme increases enrolment and household food consumption in Bangladesh
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
- This report evaluates a Food for Schooling (FFS) programme in Bangladesh. The Food for Schooling programme targets poor families and provides them with grain food subsidies if their children attend class. The evaluation finds t...
- Making sense of food security measurements
- Mauro Migotto; Benjamin Davis; Gero Carletto / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Reducing hunger and food insecurity is central to the Millennium Development Goals. Monitoring progress towards targets requires simple, quick and reliable methods. However, this has proved difficult for both researchers and practitio...
- Programme leads had better quality of diet
- F. Hanseen / Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2006
- This paper investigates the impact of Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction/Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR/TUP), on changes in food and nutrient consumption between 2002 and 2004. This programme was initiated by BRAC in 2002 ...
- Recommending that nutritional interventions be adapted to local contexts
- Operations Evaluation Department, Asian Development Bank, 2006
- This document explores the strengths and weaknesses of Asia Development Bank (ADB)-financed regional technical assistance (RETA), a modality in addressing nutrition issues and initiatives. Five member countries were consulted and inte...
- Trends in food production, availability of food and their impact on nutrition outcomes in Bangladesh
- M. Hossain; F. Naher ; Q. Shahabuddin / Agricultural and Development Economics Division, FAO, 2005
- This paper outlines food security and nutrition in Bangladesh and assess: the trends in factors that affect food production, availability of food and their impact on nutrition outcomes the trends in poverty an...
- Differing outcomes of food aid in Africa and Asia
- C. del Ninno; P. A Dorosh; K. Subarao / World Bank, 2005
- This paper analyses the outcomes of food aid and food security in India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Zambia. The research shows that there are large differences in the effectiveness of food aid in reducing long term dependence on food a...
- Leakage and ineffeciency in food-aid distribution, Bangladesh
- A. Ahmed; S. Rashid; M. Sharma; S. Zohir / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
- This study examines the efficiency of food distribution in food aid-supported programmes in Bangladesh. Specifically, it focused on three components: food discharge at harbours; the public food distribution system; and food distributi...
- Successes of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for rural poverty reduction
- Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005
- This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty. The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia...
- 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...
