The availability, access, and consumption of nutritious food is extremely important. Despite declining arable agricultural land, Bangladesh has made substantial progress in boosting domestic food production, improving access to food by increasing household income, and enhancing nutritional outcomes. Nevertheless, the challenges to food and nutrition security remain formidable. Future agricultural growth and food and nutrition security are threatened by population growth, worsening soil fertility, diminishing access to land and other scarce natural resources, increasing vulnerability of crop varieties to pests and diseases, and persistent poverty leading to poor access to food. In addition, the impacts of climate change—an increase in the incidence of natural disasters, sea intrusion, and salinity—will exacerbate food and nutrition insecurity in the coming decades if corrective measures are not taken.
In this context, this book presents an array of research that collectively focus on securing food for all in Bangladesh. Specifically, this book has 15 chapters that address four broad issues: (1) agricultural technology adoption; (2) input use and agricultural productivity; (3) food security and output market; and (4) poverty, food security, and women’s empowerment.
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviation and Acronyms
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART 1: AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY
ADOPTION
Chapter 1 Agricultural Technology Adoption in the Feed the Future Zone of Influence in Bangladesh
Akhter U. Ahmed, Ricardo Hernandez, and
Firdousi Naher
Chapter 2 Challenges and Opportunities for Hybrid Rice in Bangladesh
David J. Spielman, Patrick S. Ward,
Deepthi E. Kolady, and Harun-Ar-Rashid
Chapter 3 Agricultural Technology Potential for Rice in Bangladesh
Hua Xie, Nicola Cenacchi, and Claudia Ringler
PART 2: INPUT USE AND AGRICULTURAL
PRODUCTIVITY
Chapter 4 Rice Productivity in Bangladesh:
What Are the Benefits of Irrigation?
Andrew Reid Bell, Elizabeth Bryan, Claudia Ringler, and Akhter Ahmed
Chapter 5 Fertilizer Policy in Bangladesh:
State Intervention in Markets and Prices
Nurul Islam and Mustafa K. Mujeri
Chapter 6
Economics of Water Resources
Management in Bangladesh
Quazi Shahabuddin, Mohammad Yunus,
and K.M. Nabiul Islam
Chapter 7
Seeding the Future: Accelerating Seed System Development in Bangladesh
Firdousi Naher and David J. Spielman
PART 3: FOOD SECURITY AND
OUTPUT MARKET
Chapter 8
Promoting National and Household Food
Security in Bangladesh: Evolving Roles of Public
Stocks, Cereal Distribution and Private Trade
Paul Dorosh
Chapter 9
Food Security Implications of Rice Value Chain Management in Bangladesh
Mustafa K. Mujeri, N. Ahmed, and M. I. Hossain
Chapter 10
Escalation of Real Wages in Bangladesh: Is it
the Beginning of Structural Transformation?
Xiaobo Zhang, Shahidur Rashid, Ahmad Kaikaus, and Akhter Ahmed
Chapter 11
Sudden Onion Price Surge in Bangladesh:
A Situation Analysis for Policy
Akhter U. Ahmed and Ahmad Kaikaus
Chapter 12
The ‘Quiet Revolution’ in the Aquaculture
Value Chain in Bangladesh
Ricardo Hernandez, Ben Belton, Thomas Reardon, Chaoran Hu, Xiaobo Zhang, and Akhter Ahmed
PART 4: POVERTY, FOOD SECURITY, AND
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
Chapter 13
Climbing Up the Ladder and Watching Out forthe Fall: Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh
Akhter U. Ahmed and Salauddin Tauseef
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