Kazi Ali Toufique, Ben Belton
Aquaculture is widely held to contribute to poverty reduction and food security in the Global South, but robust evidence is limited. Using nationally representative data from Bangladesh, this study analyses changes in fish consumption from 2000 to 2010. Rapid expansion of commercial aquaculture pegg...
Ricardo Hernández, Ben Belton, Thomas Reardon, Chaoran Hu et al.
The study has produced a single, powerful finding: the fish value chain in Bangladesh is growing and transforming very rapidly, in all segments. (1) The quiet revolution in the fish value chain is a domestic market revolution: 94% of aquaculture production is destined for domestic consumption. (2) T...
Patrik J. G. Henriksson, Ben Belton, Khondker Murshed-e-Jahan, Andreu Rico
Food production is a major driver of global environmental change and the overshoot of planetary sustainability boundaries. Greater affluence in developing nations and human population growth are also increasing demand for all foods, and for animal proteins in particular. Consequently, a growing body...
Khondker Murshed-e-Jahan, Mahfuzuddin Ahmed, Ben Belton
Fish contribute a significant amount of animal protein to the diets of people in Bangladesh, about 63% of which comes from aquatic animals. In Bangladesh, fish is mainly derived from two sources: capture and culture. Aquaculture has shown tremendous growth in the last two decades, exhibiting by abou...
Hazrat Ali, Andreu Rico, Khondker Murshed-e-Jahan, Ben Belton
The aim of this study is to describe current chemical use practices in the aquaculture sector of Bangladesh and to identify the factors that influence them. A survey on the use of chemical and biological products was conducted between November 2011 and June 2012 using structured questionnaires admin...
Ben Belton, Imke Josepha Mariana van Asseldonk, Shakuntala H. Thilsted
Bangladesh has made considerable progress against human development indicators in recent years, but malnutrition resulting from poor dietary diversity and low micronutrient intakes remains entrenched. Fish is central to the Bangladeshi diet and small fish species are an important micronutrient sourc...
Ben Belton, Mohammad Mahfujul Haque, David C. Little, Le Xuan Sinh
Ben Belton, Leah Rosen, Lucinda Middleton, Saadiah Ghazali et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a shock affecting all areas of the global food system. We tracked the impacts of COVID-19 and associated policy responses on the availability and price of aquatic foods and production inputs during 2020, using a high frequency longitudinal survey of 768 respondents in Bangla...
Jessica Bogard, Sami Farook, Geoffrey C. Marks, Jillian Waid et al.
Malnutrition is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century, with one in three people in the world malnourished, combined with poor diets being the leading cause of the global burden of disease. Fish is an under-recognised and undervalued source of micronutrients, which could play a more signi...
Ben Belton, Arif Azad
Very rapid developments are widely believed to have occurred within Bangladesh's aquaculture sector in recent years, but have yet to be adequately documented. This paper addresses the information gap based on a comprehensive review of literature and data. The current status of pond based aquaculture...
Jabed Hasan, SM Majharul Islam, Md. Samsul Alam, Derek Johnson et al.
We examined microplastics (MP) in two commercially important dried fish, Bombay duck (Harpadon nehereus) and ribbon fish (Trichiurus lepturus), collected from two sites on the Bay of Bengal (Cox's Bazar and Kuakata). The number of MP found in dried Bombay duck and ribbon fish from Kuakata was signif...
Ben Belton, M. Karim, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Khondker Murshed-e-Jahan et al.
Fish play a crucial role in the Bangladeshi diet, providing more than 60% of animal source food, representing a crucial source of micro-nutrients, and possessing an extremely strong cultural attachment. Fish (including shrimp and prawn) is the second most valuable agricultural crop, and its producti...
Mohammad Mahfujul Haque, Ben Belton, Md. Mehedi Alam, Amal G. Ahmed et al.
Intensive aquaculture systems (e.g. pangasius farming) make important contributions to food security in developing countries, including Bangladesh, but are associated with a variety of negative environmental impacts, including the discharge of nutrient rich sediments into local ecosystems. The prese...
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...
Khondker Murshed-e-Jahan, Ben Belton, K. Kuperan Viswanathan
Fisheries management involves balancing the competing demands of different users of fishery resources. Conflicts among fisheries stakeholders arise due to differences in power, interests, values, priorities, and manner of resource exploitation. Conflicts also emanate from institutional failures in m...