Reports

Highlights The countrywide retail prices of rice (Boro HYV coarse rice) continued to decline with the national average being stable at 24.5 Tk/kg in the current quarter. International rice prices remained stable after increasing by 2 percent…

WAM Dubai, 16 Sept. 2012 (WAM) -- Dubai Cares, in partnership with Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition 'GAIN', recently inaugurated a pilot school feeding programme supported by the Government of Bangladesh to improve the education and…

SEAR/PR 1549 Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 7 September, 2012: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Nepal and Myanmar have a critical shortage of trained health workers. These countries have fewer than 23 health workers (doctors, nurses and midwives) per 10 000…

DHAKA, AUGUST 31 -- The U.S. Assistant to the Administrator in the Bureau for Food Security Paul Weisenfeld, and Denise Rollins, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Asia Bureau of USAID, the U.S. Government’s premier development…

INSIDE THIS ISSUE The ‘Value Girls’ from Lake Victoria’s Shores Decades of U.S. Assistance Show Economic Achievement Pays Dividends A Right to Land Sara Gets the Message: Texts Plant Profits for Malawi Farmers Palestinian ‘Liquid Gold’ Haiti’s Road Less Traveled From Brick and…

SUBMITTED BY JULIE MCLAUGHLIN On July 11, World Population Day, while global health leaders meet in London to discuss giving greater priority to family planning, World Bank health staff in South Asia will be thinking about…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Poor rains recorded during 2011/12 agricultural season Record harvests of 2011 Aman (main wet season) paddy is forecast Rice prices decreased in the recent months while wheat prices continue to rise Localized food insecurity persists Poor rains recorded…

Dhaka, Bangladesh, 9 February 2012: GAIN – the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition – and UNICEF today announced a major multi-sector partnership that will reach an estimated 100 million Bangladeshis with vitamin A fortified vegetable oil. The…

DHAKA, JANUARY 12, 2012—The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Government’s premier development agency, celebrated 50 years of global assistance and 40 years with Bangladesh at a gala event last evening at the…

DHAKA, 15 November 2011 (IRIN) - The government of Bangladesh is looking near and far - from Ukraine to South Sudan - to bolster food security at home, according to the Ministry of Food and Disaster…