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    Wider research paper: does women's status matter for food security? Evidence from Bangladesh

    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2007
    This paper explores the relationship between women's status within the household (her power to bargain) and food security, considering individuals food intake, physical differences, activities performed, budget and asset control. It draws on data collected from a household survey conducted mainly in rural Bangladesh between 2004-05.
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    Food price hikes, food security, and gender equality: assessing the roles and vulnerability of women in households of Bangladesh and Ethiopia

    Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010
    This article, based on research into the effects of the sudden rise in food prices from 2007 – 2008, shows how women responded to food insecurity in farming households in areas of Bangladesh and Ethiopia. In 2008 these two countries were listed by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) as two of the 37 considered in crisis owing to food price hikes.
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    Are female-headed households more food insecure? Evidence from Bangladesh

    Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2010
    This paper uses household and village-level survey data to investigate the food security of male- and female-headed households in Bangladesh with particular attention to indigenous ethnic groups. The measure of food security is based on the perception of the respondents.The paper's main findings are:
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    Genetically modified food and international trade : The case of India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2007
    This paper studies the potential effects of introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines in the presence of trade-related regulations of GM food in major importers. It focuses on GM field crops (rice, wheat, maize, soybeans, and cotton) resistant to biotic and abiotic stresses, such as drought-resistant rice.
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    Helping ultra-poor people sustainably move out of poverty in Bangladesh

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The poorest people are often caught in a poverty trap from which it is difficult to escape, even with the help of existing development programmes, including microfinance. A recent initiative in Bangladesh suggests it is possible to create grant-based approaches to suit extremely poor households.
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    Food sovereignty and uncultivated biodiversity in South Asia: essays on the poverty of food policy and the wealth of the social landscape

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    Based on a series of studies and practical experiments undertaken over several years in the drylands of Medak district in Andhra Pradesh (South India) and in the flood-plains of Tangail district in Bangladesh, this slim volume tells us some surprising facts about uncultivated foods.
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    Dietary diversity as a measure of women's diet quality in resource-poor areas: results from rural Bangladesh site

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2008
    In developing countries, where low-quality, monotonous grain- and tuber-based diets are the norm, the risk for micronutrient deficiencies is high, especially amongst women of reproductive age. However, despite being a global problem, data on women’s micronutrient status and the quality of women’s diets is scarce.
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    Livelihoods in rural Bangladesh

    Tiempo Climate Cyberlibrary, 2006
    For many of the poorest residents of Subarnabad, a village in rural Bangladesh, lackof money to meet basic needs is related to the environmental changes that have been occurring during the last 25 to 30 years. The authors describe the local vulnerabilities to environmental change such as saltwater intrusion and shrimp farm introduction in rural Bangladesh.
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    Agribusiness in South Asia: a fact sheet

    Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2007
    This paper reviews the nature, profile and functioning of South Asia’s agribusiness sector which has been undergoing rapid changes in the wake of globalisation. Its principal focus is the impact of agribusiness corporations, supermarket chains and such agencies on primary producers and rural poverty reduction.
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    Fighting child malnutrition through the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    The Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project sought to improve the nutritional status of children through counselling and supplementary feeding for malnourished children and women. Such programmes often assume that increased knowledge and resources result in the desired outcomes, but it is crucial to examine the underlying logic.

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