This episode features IFPRI’s Senior Research Fellow and Bangladesh Country Representative Akhter Ahmed, who in a conversation with Sivan Yosef, shares the inspiring story of ANGeL, an intervention that used agriculture, nutrition, and gender trainings... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
Research Talks with IFPRI – Episode 2: Scaling Up Nutrition for the Poor in Bangladesh
Episode 2 of the IFPRI podcast shares the inspiring story of ANGeL, an intervention in Bangladesh that used agriculture, nutrition, and gender trainings to directly help and empower poor people. Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program
2019 Global Food Policy Report Dhaka Launch: Lessons from Bangladesh on Rural Revitalization
Bangladesh’s transition from a war-ravaged, impoverished country to a rural development success story over four decades has been astounding. What can its experience teach the world about rural revitalization? In an increasingly urbanized world, where nearly 70% of the global population is projected to live in cities by 2050, we are at risk of leaving […] Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office
Empowering Women in Agriculture
The government is rolling out the ‘ANGeL’ program nationwide to train women farmers in order to develop dietary diversity, nutrition and financial gains, and cut medical costs. Women constitute over 50% of the farm labour force in Bangladesh, much higher a participation comparing to 30% in India and Pakistan. But as they belong to small […] 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
