Agriculture has always been a significant part of BRAC’s development approach and strategy.  Agriculture is seen as a major conduit for poverty reduction, improved food security, and women’s empowerment. Taking advantage of the government’s liberal policies towards NGO involvement in development, BRAC initiated major interventions in different agriculture sub-sectors including crops, poultry, livestock, and fisheries, and scaled them to reach millions of rural households. This book documents selected innovations and how those were scaled through research, extension and marketing.

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Chapter 1: Introduction by Mushtaque Chowdhury, Hugh Brammer and Muazzam Husain

 

Chapter 2: Role of BRAC in Growth and Development of Agriculture by Jiban Krishna Biswas

 

Chapter 3: Role of BRAC in Growth and Development of Poultry Sector by S. D. Chowdhury

 

Chapter 4: Role of BRAC in the Growth and Development of the Livestock Sector by A. K. Fazlul Haque Bhuiyan

 

Chapter 5: Role of BRAC in the Growth and Development of the Fisheries Sector by M. Saifuddin Shah

 

Chapter 6: Replicating BRAC’s Experiences Internationally by Md. A. Saleque

 

Chapter 7: Learning from the Past: Looking to the Future by Hugh Brammer