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Profitability in farming on the decline: study

Farmers are registering reduced profitability from paddy cultivation due to tightening of the rural labour market and declining real prices for the cereal grain, according to a joint study by two international research organisations. The study found th... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

IFPRI workshop presents policy research on agri-food value chains and farm mechanization in Bangladesh

March 5, 2024, Dhaka, Bangladesh – The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CGIAR, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, convened a workshop on “Agri-food value chains and farm mechanization in Bangladesh” at th... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

New Working Paper: Evaluation of a livestock financing project in Bangladesh: Navigating operational, environmental, and behavioral challenges

Smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries have limited access to finance, due to the pau city of banks and other financial institutions in rural areas. As a result, banks and other formal financial institutions tend not to know much about... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office

NITI Aayog and IFPRI Sign Statement of Intent

Strengthening policy frameworks for agricultural transformation and rural development New Delhi, 13 December 2023: The National Institution for Transforming India
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BLOG – Bridging the smallholder finance gap: Collaborative research with WeGro in Bangladesh

BY KATE AMBLER, MEHRAB BAKHTIAR, ALAN DE BRAUW, MOHAMMAD RIAD UDDIN Farmers in many low- and middle-income countries face a major financial gap, with available resources often insufficient to enable them to increase production—and putting many higher-v... Source: IFPRI Bangladesh Country Office