Ben Belton, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque, David C. Little, Le Xuan Sinh
Carol Shennan, Timothy J. Krupnik, Graeme Baird, Hamutahl Cohen et al.
In this review, we examine the debate surrounding the role for organic agriculture in future food production systems. Typically represented as a binary organic–conventional question, this debate perpetuates an either/or mentality. We question this framing and examine the pitfalls of organic–conventi...
Thomas Reardon, Kevin Z. Chen, Bart Minten, Lourdes Adriano et al.
There is a rapid transformation afoot in the rice value chain in Asia. The upstream is changing quickly-farmers are undertaking capital-led intensification and participating in burgeoning markets for land rental, fertilizer and pesticides, irrigation water, and seed, and shifting from subsistence to...
Caitlin Kieran, Kathryn Sproule, Cheryl R. Doss, Agnes Quisumbing et al.
Abstract A broad consensus has emerged among both policymakers and researchers that strengthening women's property rights is crucial for reducing poverty and achieving equitable growth. Despite the important role of land in rural livelihoods and as a form of wealth in many Asian countries, surprisin...
Sanzidur Rahman
Farmers' perception of the environmental impacts of modern agricultural technology diffusion and factors determining such awareness were examined using survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Results reveal that farmers are well aware of the adverse environmental...
Nesar Ahmed, Edward H. Allison, James Muir
This paper examines freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) farming in southwest Bangladesh where a large number of farmers have converted their rice fields to export oriented prawn farms, locally known as gher. The gher design potentially provides good opportunities for diversified production ...
Marzia Rahman, T. Lund, Ian Bryceson
Zannatul Ferdous, Farhad Zulfiqar, Avishek Datta, Ahmed Khairul Hasan et al.
Bangladesh’s economy and livelihoods of majority of its population depend on agriculture. Despite the importance of agriculture, ensuring food security is a concern because of frequent natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and land degradation. The country has limited land area but diver...
Kevin McKague, Charlene Zietsma, Christine Oliver
Motivated by the question of how to develop viable new markets and value chains in the resource-constrained settings of least developed countries, we adopted multi-year qualitative methods to examine the intervention of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in developing the dairy value chain in Bang...
Jeffrey Sayer, Gary Bullb, Chris Elliottc
"Present biodiversity conservation programmes in the remaining extensive forest blocks of the humid trop??ics are failing to achieve outcomes that will be viable in the medium to long term. Too much emphasis is given to what we term 'grand design'-ambitious and idealistic plans for conservation. Suc...
Shelley Feldman
Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencie...
Toufique Ka, C. Turton
The phrase ‘rural Bangladesh’ no longer means what it once did. We believe it to be out of date as the distinction between urban and rural life is no longer clear cut. Powerful external economic forces including those of globalisation and the expansion of physical infrastructure – especially roads a...
von Grebmer, Klaus; Ringler, Claudia; Rosegrant, Mark W.; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; Wiesmann, Doris; Fritschel, Heidi; Badiane, Ousmane; Torero, Maximo; Yohannes, Yisehac; Thompson, Jennifer; von Oppeln, Constanze; Rahall, Joseph, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-3400 Badiane, Ousmane; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3591-000X Fritschel, Heidi; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6371-6127 Rosegrant, Mark; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4863-3371 Torero, Maximo; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6908-5773 von Grebmer, K.; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1269-4041 Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7932-1816 Yohannes, Yisehac
World hunger, according to the 2012 Global Hunger Index (GHI), has declined somewhat since 1990 but remains “serious.” The global average masks dramatic differences among regions and countries. Regionally, the highest GHI scores are in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. South Asia reduced its GHI sc...
Ben Belton, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque, David C. Little
Aquaculture has long been promoted by development institutions in Bangladesh on the understanding that it can alleviate poverty. Most of this attention has focused on forms of the activity commonly referred to as ‘small-scale’. This article draws on concepts from the literature on agricultural growt...
Nitya Rao
Land for the adivasi Santal women in Dumka, Jharkhand stands for security, social position and identity, and in this men have a distinct advantage. The time period covered is from historic times to the present. The role of government administrative bodies, NGOs and political leaders is also emphasiz...