Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Director General Shenggen Fan announced the appointment of Shahidur Rashid of Bangladesh as Director for South Asia based in New Delhi. He succeeds Pramod Joshi of India who was appointed as Director of South Asia in February 2012. “I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Shahidur […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
Policy Workshop: Agricultural Transformation in Bangladesh
On March 6, 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and the USAID-funded Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSSP), implemented by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), jointly organized a half-day policy workshop to disseminate research-based evidence from the “Agriculture, Nutrition, and Gender Linkages (ANGeL)” project, and the Bt brinjal impact assessment. The event attracted […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
EAT-Lancet Commission Report Launch in Bangladesh
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
