From the Ground Up: BRAC's Innovations in the Development of Agriculture in Bangladesh and Beyond
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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.
A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury
A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury is Deputy Executive Director and Director Research of BRAC. He obtained a Ph.D from London and contributed many articles and books in the areas of public health, education and poverty eradication. He is co-ordinator of the Working Group of Education Watch.
Hugh Brammer
Hugh Brammer (MA, Geography, Cambridge University, 1951) worked on reconnaissance soil surveys in the Gold Coast/Ghana 1951−61, then joined FAO to organise the reconnaissance soil survey of East Pakistan 1961-71. After serving as Senior Soil Scientist in Zambia 1972-74, he returned to Bangladesh in 1974 to serve with the Ministry of Agriculture as land use (later agricultural development) adviser until his retirement from FAO in 1987. Mr Brammer then worked as a consultant for FAO and the World Bank until 1995, including for Bangladesh’s Flood Policy Study (1989), the Flood Action Plan (1989−95) and a Greenhouse Effects Study (1992). He subsequently wrote seven books on soils, agriculture and land use in Bangladesh, published by UPL. In 2006, Mr Brammer initiated
Md. A. Saleque
Md. A. Saleque is Adviser for Agriculture, Food Security and Livelihood Programme, BRAC International.
Muazzam Husain
Muazzam Husain is an Agricultural Economist and former Professor of Bangladesh Agricultural University.
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