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    An Econometric Assessment of Household Food Security in Bangladesh

    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 food insecure households. Regression results show that food security indicator is also highly sensitive to rice price changes.
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    Gender: A key dimension linking agricultural programs to improved nutrition and health

    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 women are more likely than men to spend income on food, healthcare and the education of their children.
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    Where the rain falls: climate change, food and livelihood security, and migration

    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 research sessions involving 2,000 individuals. The results reveal that migration is an important risk management strategy for vulnerable households.
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    Understanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh

    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 in farming practices.
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    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’. Yet no clear consensus has so far emerged concerning many basic design choices and implementation of social protection policies and programs.
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    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.
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    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 countries of South Asia.
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    Plunging into Food Insecurity

    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 access to appropriate level food for every individual.
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    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 impact on domestic food inflation and overall inflation. This rising food inflation has a severe impact over the marginalized people.
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    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 the past recent years are not only displacing people physically but also exposing to enhanced poverty by threatening their livelihoods temporarily and permanently.

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