Today, the world faces a pandemic of malnutrition marked by the coexistence of overweight and underweight and a surge of diet-related chronic diseases. Our global food production is the single largest driver of environmental degradation and climate instability. Now, the new On February 13, IFPRI, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), and EAT invited […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
Bangladesh’s Story of Accelerating Nutrition: Interview with the Speaker of Parliament
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Governments must step up to meet deadline to end hunger
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - World governments will need to lift 185,000 people out of hunger each day for the next 12 years in order to meet global goals to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, a United Nations expert said on Wednesday. The calculation was made by Kostas Stamoulis, assistant director-general of the U.N. […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
How can safety nets reduce violence against women in Bangladesh?
Direct cash transfers coupled with behaviour change communication (BCC) can reduce violence against women inflicted by their partners by more than a quarter, according to a study. The study said the reduction in violence was found six to 10 months after the intervention ended, providing the first evidence that such benefits can be sustained by […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
A Catch-22 in Safety Net Targeting in Bangladesh
A Bureaucratic Catch-22: Study in Bangladesh Shows How Safety Nets Can Overlook the Poorest Around the world, governments and development partners make hard choices on how to invest their limited resources to help the needy. But in a country like Bangladesh, where almost one fourth of the population of 165 million lives below the poverty line, […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
