Bangladesh and Food security
- Capital:
Dhaka - Population:
156118464 - Size:
144000.0 Km2
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- Gender equality is key to food security
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
- This brief discusses its research findings emphasising that empowering women is the key to ensuring food and nutrition security in the developing world. A number of examples from case studies are used from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Me...
- Feeding children helps keep them in school
- X. Meng; J. Ryan / Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australia, 2003
- This paper evaluates the effect of the eight year old Bangladeshi Food for Education (FFE) programme on primary school participation and duration of schooling using household sample survey data collected in 2000. Employing vari...
- A combination of public and private responses to prevent a food crisis, Bangladesh
- C. del Ninno; P.A. Dorosh; L.C. Smith / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
- This paper analyses the 1998 floods in Bangladesh, which covered two-thirds of the country and caused severe damage to the major rice crop, from the perspective of food security. Specifically, it explores the components of the public ...
- Effectiveness of IFPRI's Rural Finance Policies for Food Security programme
- J. Alwang; V. Puhazhendhi / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This study examines the impact of IFPRI's multi-country research project on Rural Finance Policies for Food Security for the Poor (IRFPP) within four countries (Nepal, Bangladesh, Ghana and Malawi). It also examines IRFPP's contributi...
- How can the MDG in hunger be achieved?: issues of food security in Asia
- G. Gill; J. Farrington; E. Anderson; C. Luttrell; T. Conway; N.C. Saxena; R. Slater / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam. It identifies the key issues relating to food s...
- How does green revolution technology impact on poverty reduction in Bangladesh?
- K. Hallman; D. Lewis; S. Begum / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
- This study examines the poverty reduction implications of the introduction of three different agricultural technologies by government and NGOs in three rural sites across Bangladesh. The technologies looked at are: new vegetabl...
- Is the marginal propensity to consume food greater for in-kind transfers than for cash transfers in Bangladesh?
- C. del Ninno; P.A. Dorosh / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002
- This paper examines the impact of wheat transfers and cash incomes on wheat consumption and wheat markets. It uses data from a 1998/99 survey of rural households in Bangladesh to econometrically estimate marginal propensities to consu...
- Broadening poverty research in Bangladesh to include secondary cities
- Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2002
- How can the rising numbers of people living in extreme poverty in the slums of towns and cities in Bangladesh they be raised from poverty? How can they be employed, housed, fed, educated and cared for? This bulletin presents da...
- Research programme on food insecurity and malnutrition in urban areas
- J. Garrett; M. Ruel / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
- This research centre holds information from IFPRI's research program Urban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security. The programme began in 1995 and aims at providing policy makers, program administrators and development practitioner...
- Microfinance structures tend to exclude the very poor
- I. Matin / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2002
- This paper, published by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), analyses Income Generation for Vulnerable Group Development (IGVGD), a programme initiated by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) which aimed to link f...
- 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...
