Thomas Reardon, C. Peter Timmer, Christopher B. Barrett, Julio A. Berdegué
Supermarkets are traditionally viewed by development economists, policymakers, and practitioners as the rich world's place to shop. The three regions discussed here have a great majority of the poor on the planet. But supermarkets are no longer just niche players for rich consumers in the capital ci...
Mariapia Mendola
Daniel Hoornweg, Lorraine Sugar, Claudia Lorena Trejos Gómez
Cities are blamed for the majority of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. So too are more affluent, highly urbanized countries. If all production-and consumption-based emissions that result from lifestyle and purchasing habits are included, urban residents and their associated affluence likely account f...
Christopher Kennedy, Iain D. Stewart, Angelo Facchini, Igor Cersosimo et al.
Understanding the drivers of energy and material flows of cities is important for addressing global environmental challenges. Accessing, sharing, and managing energy and material resources is particularly critical for megacities, which face enormous social stresses because of their sheer size and co...
K. L. Heong, B. Hardy, Heong, K.L., Hardy, B.
Rice is the staple food for around half the world’s people and about three-quarters of a billion of the world’s poor depend on rice. Each year, an additional 50 million rice consumers are added to the world population, which means that rice production will need to increase markedly. Lowland rice pro...
Leonard Gianessi
Herbicide use is increasingly being adopted around the world. Many developing countries (India, China, Bangladesh) are facing shortages of workers to hand weed fields as millions of people move from rural to urban areas. In these countries, herbicides are far cheaper and more readily available than ...
Pallab Mozumder, Achla Marathe
Tim Coelli, Sanzidur Rahman, Colin Thirtle
Applying programming techniques to detailed data for 406 rice farms in 21 villages, for 1997, produces inefficiency measures, which differ substantially from the results of simple yield and unit cost measures. For the Boro (dry) season, mean technical efficiency was 69.4 per cent, allocative efficie...
Mohammad Sujauddin, S. M. S. Huda, A.T.M. Rafiqul Hoque
Solid waste management (SWM) is a multidimensional challenge faced by urban authorities, especially in developing countries like Bangladesh. We investigated per capita waste generation by residents, its composition, and the households' attitudes towards waste management at Rahman Nagar Residential A...
A. N. M. Rubaiyath Bin Rahman, Jianhua Zhang
Abstract Rice production and research have met unprecedented challenges in recent years. Yield and total production have plateaued for many years in some major producing rice‐producing countries while the demand from populations in poverty is ever increasing. For example, more than 100 million addit...
Abdul Wadud, Ben White
This study compares estimates of technical efficiency obtained from the stochastic frontier approach and the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach using farm-level survey data for rice farmers in Bangladesh. Technical inefficiency effects are modelled as a function of farm-specific socioeconomic ...
K. M. Atikur Rahman, Dunfu Zhang
The excessive use of inorganic fertilizers causes serious environmental degradation, resulting in lower crop yields in Bangladesh. Seventy percent of Bangladesh farmers practice traditional fertilizer broadcasting. In the 1960s, the Bangladesh state authority launched a ‘Grow More Food’ campaign to ...
Shahidur R. Khandker, Zaid Bakht, Gayatri Koolwal
A rationale for public investment in rural roads is that households can better exploit agricultural and nonagricultural opportunities to employ labor and capital more efficiently. Significant knowledge gaps persist, however, as to how opportunities provided by roads actually filter back into househo...
J.V. Meenakshi, Nancy L. Johnson, Victor M. Manyong, Hugo De Groote et al.
Sanzidur Rahman, Mizanur Rahman