This annual report describes the World Food Programme's (WFP's) humanitarian response of providing food to areas greatly affected by natural disasters in 2007, such as Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, hurricanes and floods in Latin America and the Caribbean, Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua, tropical storm...
Publisher
World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
Citation
Annual Report - World Food Programme, 2007: be part of the solution, 2007, pp 48 pp.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) emphasise the reduction of poverty, hunger, and food insecurity as prerequisites for the economic development of a country. This paper examines how natural disaster shocks affect the food security of rural households in Bangladesh. We utilise the latest...
Author(s)
Shah, M. I.; Sakil Ahmmed; Khalid, U.
Publisher
Wiley, Oxford, UK
Citation
Geographical Journal, 2022, 188, 2, pp 223-244
This annual report chronicles the activities of the World Food Programme (WFP) during 2008, including their life-saving food and nutrition assistance to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar; to the victims of 4 storms in Haiti; to the people affected by hunger due to conflicts and crises in...
Publisher
World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
Citation
Annual Report - World Food Programme 2009, 2009, pp 52 pp.
Issues of food security and food aid have become important in Bangladesh. Three phases in food security and food aid policy are distinguished :post-independence reconstruction involving large-scale food aid; the increased use of targeted food aid projects in the period 1978-88 as Bangladesh grew...
Author(s)
Shaw, J.; Clay, E.
Publisher
James Currey Publisher, Rome: World Food Programme in association with London, UK, Italy
Citation
World food aid: experiences of recipients & donors., 1993, pp 41-55
The paper examines food aid trends and motivations and their impact in Bangladesh. As the world's second largest food aid recipient (after Egypt) between 1975 and 1992, Bangladesh has operated a number of innovative and well-documented food aid programmes. Historically, donors have provided more...
Author(s)
Atwood, D. A.; Jahangir, A. S. M.; Smith, H.; Golam Kabir
Publisher
John Hopkins University Press., Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Citation
Out of the shadows of famine: evolving food markets and food policy in Bangladesh., 2000, pp 148-164
Bangladesh has a wealth of institutional diversity and experience with targeted social safety net programs. Most of these programs are widely credited with providing the poor access to food and improving their livelihoods. However, the need for assistance is overwhelming. According to the latest...
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Citation
Assessing indicators for selection of participants for the Vulnerable Group Development (VGD) program in Bangladesh, 2018, pp iii + 22 pp.
Food aid, both for short-term emergency relief and as program food aid that helps address medium-term food "deficits", is often a major component of food security strategies in developing countries. This study reviews the experience with food aid of four major recipients of food aid (India,...
Author(s)
Ninno, C. del; Dorosh, P. A.; Subbarao, K.
Publisher
Elsevier, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2007, 32, 4, pp 413-435
The Indian government is involved in almost every aspect of foodgrain procurement and distribution. Systemic inefficiencies and irregularities have slowed progress in achieving food security while programme expansion toward universality of coverage has important budgetary implications. Bangladesh...
Author(s)
Banerjee, O.; Darbas, T.; Brown, P. R.; Roth, C. H.
Publisher
Elsevier B. V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Global Food Security, 2014, 3, 3/4, pp 159-166
Food security remains a key development challenge for many developing countries in the world. In Bangladesh, agriculture is the mainstay of livelihoods of the rural population which provides employment for around 52% of the workforce counting for 63% of households of which the majority are small...
Author(s)
Hasneen Jahan; Tasrina Sultana; Palash, M. S.; Rahman, M. W.; Jalilov, S. M.
Publisher
Bangladesh Agricultural University System (BAURES), Mymensingh, Bangladesh
Citation
Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University, 2021, 19, 3, pp 379-388
COVID-19 has threatened food security of the poor due to the lockdown of markets amidst poor institutions and lack of social safety nets in the developing world. To provide rapid evidence on the determinants and dynamics of food insecurity and to understand the coping strategies adopted by rural...
Author(s)
Firoz Ahmed; Islam, A.; Debayan Pakrashi; Rahman, T.; Siddique, A.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2021, 101,