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Nature and Impact of Womenâs Participation in Economic Activities in Rural Bangladesh: Insights from Household Surveys
This paper has been prepared as part of CPD's ongoing agricultural policy research. The paper was presented at the dialogue on Women's Contribution to Rural Economic Activities: Making the Invisible Visible. It presents some empirical evidences of recent changes in gender roles in economic activities, and impact of women's participation on their empowerment and the socioeconomic conditions of the household. The information presented in this paper comes mostly from analysis of gender-specific (male and female) survey data at two points of time, i.e., 1987 and 2000. The surveys covered samples from 62 villages from 57 districts.Women, Bangladesh
Food and Nutritional Security in Bangladesh: Going beyond Carbohydrate Counts
The progress towards achieving household nutritional food-security in Bangladesh has remained slow. So far the food security is cereal-based (mainly rice) and food basket has not yet diversified towards high nutritive/ quality food. This article has examined the expenditure inequalities in the dietary pattern and incidence of poverty in Bangladesh by using household income, expenditure and food consumption survey data. Results have shown wide-spread inequalities in income and expenditure distribution. Among food items, the inequalities have been found very low for cereals and high for livestock and horticulture commodities and various types of fish species in both rural and urban areas. The analysis of food poverty, its depth and severity has revealed a typical hidden poverty that could not be brought up by analyzing economic poverty. The food poverty has been found high for pulses, horticulture and livestock commodities among both economically rich and poor households. Fish, livestock, horticulture and pulses sectors should be accorded high priority to diversify the dietary pattern towards high quality food and improve the nutritional food-security of households in Bangladesh.Food Security and Poverty,
Changing Womenâs Roles in Homestead Management: Mainstreaming Women in Rural Development
This paper has been prepared as part of CPD's advocacy activities with IRRI under the PETRRA project and was presented at the dialogue on Women's Contribution to Rural Economic Activities: Making the Invisible Visible. It reports the result of the focus group discussions with men and women as a supplement to the quantitative information gathered from household surveys as presented in the CPD Occasional Paper 41. Focus Group Discussions (FGD) were conducted in 8 out of the 62 villages from 57 districts included in the quantitative study.Women, Bangladesh
Geographical Concentration of Rural Poverty in Bangladesh
This paper was presented at the dialogue on Mapping Poverty for Rural Bangladesh: Implications for Pro-poor Development. The dialogue was organised as part of CPD's ongoing agricultural policy research and advocacy activities with IRRI under the PETRRA project. The study reported geographical concentration of rural poverty in Bangladesh for 425 upazilas in 2000-01. The study measured and mapped incidence of poverty (using Headcount Index), intensity of poverty (using Poverty Gap Index) and severity of poverty (using Squared Poverty Gap Index). It has analyzed factors contributing to the spatial concentration of poverty. It is hoped that the findings of the study would be helpful in identifying target areas and priorities for agricultural R&D interventions and poverty reduction programmes.Poverty, Rural Poverty, Bangladesh
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Determining high potential aquaculture production areas - Analysis of key socio-economic adoption factors
Global aquaculture production increased with an average rate of 10% per year since 1990 and 90% of
aquaculture production comes from developing countries thus providing livelihood and income especially
to marginal groups who have limited access to resources such as agricultural land and financial capital.
Geographical information systems (GIS) based decision support models can facilitate the prioritizing of
national research, development and extension strategies and targeting of development assistance for
aquaculture because they can provide information to stakeholders as to where and under what conditions
certain aquaculture technologies would be feasible. Factors that determine the adoption of aquaculture
technologies by farmers include agro-ecological (rainfall, temperature, soil type, slope), socio-economic
(land, labor, capital, infrastructure, inputs), and institutional characteristics (extension services, producersâ
organizations). While maps can be used to display the agro-ecological factors, many important socioeconomic
and institutional variables are not explicitly spatial (such as household land holdings or access
to education and credits). To enable the integration of socio-economic variables in GIS models, we
suggest a methodology comprising of four stages: (1) identification of key factors for successful adoption
of target technologies on the micro-level, (2) development of indicators on the meso-level, (3) generation
of geo-referenced meso-level indicator data sets for the target area, and (4) assignment of ranking/weights
to the indicators. The paper outlines the conceptual framework applied and highlights some of the
inherent methodological challenges. Results of the adoption analysis for aquaculture in Bangladesh and
Malawi, representing different levels of aquaculture production intensification, are presented and
discussed
Food and Nutritional Security in Bangladesh: Going beyond Carbohydrate Counts
The progress towards achieving household nutritional food-security in
Bangladesh has remained slow. So far the food security is cereal-based
(mainly rice) and food basket has not yet diversified towards high nutritive/
quality food. This article has examined the expenditure inequalities in the
dietary pattern and incidence of poverty in Bangladesh by using household
income, expenditure and food consumption survey data. Results have
shown wide-spread inequalities in income and expenditure distribution.
Among food items, the inequalities have been found very low for cereals
and high for livestock and horticulture commodities and various types of
fish species in both rural and urban areas. The analysis of food poverty,
its depth and severity has revealed a typical hidden poverty that could
not be brought up by analyzing economic poverty. The food poverty has
been found high for pulses, horticulture and livestock commodities among
both economically rich and poor households. Fish, livestock, horticulture
and pulses sectors should be accorded high priority to diversify the dietary
pattern towards high quality food and improve the nutritional food-security
of households in Bangladesh
2005) 'Food and Nutritional Security in Bangladesh: Going beyond Carbohydrates Counts
Abstract The progress towards achieving household nutritional food-security in Bangladesh has remained slow. So far the food security is cereal-based (mainly rice) and food basket has not yet diversified towards high nutritive/ quality food. This article has examined the expenditure inequalities in the dietary pattern and incidence of poverty in Bangladesh by using household income, expenditure and food consumption survey data. Results have shown wide-spread inequalities in income and expenditure distribution. Among food items, the inequalities have been found very low for cereals and high for livestock and horticulture commodities and various types of fish species in both rural and urban areas. The analysis of food poverty, its depth and severity has revealed a typical hidden poverty that could not be brought up by analyzing economic poverty. The food poverty has been found high for pulses, horticulture and livestock commodities among both economically rich and poor households. Fish, livestock, horticulture and pulses sectors should be accorded high priority to diversify the dietary pattern towards high quality food and improve the nutritional food-security of households in Bangladesh