THE latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report, released on October 29, offers a paradoxical picture of food security landscape. The number of people facing acute food insecurity has fallen from 23.5 million in 2024 to 16 million in 2025. The figures reflect a systemic neglect and fragile governance. In a country of 165 million, nearly one in 10 citizens is still...
Nearly 1.6 crore people across 36 districts in Bangladesh are facing high levels of acute food insecurity, while 16 lakh children are acutely malnourished, according to an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report.
THIS is unfortunate that food losses post harvest and food waste at consumption account for a third of all the food produced in Bangladesh, as a recent World Bank report says, when insufficient food security forces 12 per cent of the poor to skip meals and about 9 per cent of the poor to pass a day without food, as a recent Power and Participation Research Centre...
Environmental campaigners at a rally in Rajshahi on Thursday called for replacing the fossil fuel-based food system with green and sustainable energy-based alternatives to ensure environmental justice and food security...
The inaugural session of the 3rd Youth Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology was held at the North South University in Dhaka on Saturday...
The government and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation, a member of the Islamic Development Bank Group, on Wednesday signed two significant financing agreements in Jeddah to strengthen food security...
Speakers at a recent seminar said food security, rural livelihoods and climate resilience in Bangladesh depend on how effectively water resources are managed.
Rice prices continue to be the major contributor to food inflation as well as overall price hikes of essentials that lead majority people to struggle for food security amid spreading hidden hunger...
Lisa Tate, whose family has been farming in Ventura County since 1876, cannot recall a threat to crops like the one emanating from Donald Trump鈥檚 anti-immigrant onslaught...
China and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations today held discussions on enhancing agricultural cooperation and strengthening food security in Bangladesh through trilateral initiatives...
Bangladesh鈥檚 food production faces a significant threat and food security is increasingly at risk as agricultural land has been eroded by 3.75 per cent over the past eight years, driven by rapid urbanisation across the country.
THE foreign affairs adviser鈥檚 statement of on April 27 to the media on humanitarian channel sparked debates and discussions across political, security and academic domains. The adviser said, 鈥楢ccording to the United Nations鈥� proposal, Bangladesh has agreed in principle to allow a humanitarian corridor to Rakhine. It will be a humanitarian passage. However, we have...
THE Global Hunger Index 2024, published by Welthungerhilfe, Germany based non-profit and non-governmental aid agency, provides an important snapshot of the global state of hunger and malnutrition. This year鈥檚 findings reflect both progress and stagnation. While some nations inch closer to the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030, others...
BANGLADESH is home to two species of Pangas fish: pangasius pangasius, which inhabits open water bodies such as rivers, floodplains and beels and Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, a species predominantly cultured in closed water systems such as ponds and ghers. Over the years, Pangas 鈥� particularly Pangasianodon hypophthalmus 鈥� has emerged as the most...
Visiting International Food Policy Research Institute director for the poverty, gender and inclusion unit, Daniel Gilligan observed that malnutrition and lack of access to high quality diets were among the leading challenges to food security in Bangladesh...
THE government has ways to go and steps to adopt for sustainable food systems crucial for ensuring food security and nutrition for all. A sustainable food system, encompassing everything from processing, packaging and transport of food, also prioritises sustainable agriculture and environmental concern. A sustainable food system also encourages local...
AGRICULTURAL practices have faced various adversities that have threatened our food security. Some serious challenges include high temperatures, cold spells or low temperatures, flooding, drought, gusty winds, and hailstorms. These adversities are particularly responsible for unfilled grains in rice fields. Weather has a profound relationship...
A LOW intake of animal protein by the large majority of people because of serious erosion in their purchasing power consequent on persistent high inflation is worrying. High inflation, which has remained more than 10 per cent for months, has pushed many people below the poverty threshold while the number of extreme poor has increased. Inflation...
PEOPLE, especially the poor and the segments of the population with low, fixed and limited income, continue to suffer as prices of goods remain high. Prices of vegetables, onions, potatoes and edible oil remained high in the week ending on November 29. A slight decrease in prices of coarse varieties of rice, broilers and eggs in the week has, however, failed to make any noticeable difference for...
The government will keep the food distribution continue under open market sale to ensure food security of all people throughout the country.
The National Board of Revenue has lifted all import and regulatory duties on rice to ensure food security and control prices for the common people.
Bangladesh having slipped three notches in the Global Hunger Index 2024, based on 2019鈥�2023 data, shows that the development model pursued and trumpeted by the toppled Awami League government ignored people鈥檚 most basic necessities. The index, prepared by two European non-governmental organisations and made public on October 11, has...
The United States Trade and Development Agency has awarded a feasibility study grant to establish a temperature-controlled logistics network to develop cold storage refrigeration warehouses in Bangladesh to reduce food losses and improve food security...
BOTH at theoretical and empirical levels, ample literature on food security is in evidence worldwide. Particularly in Bangladesh, the food security issue buzzes around academic and research corners most frequently. Policymakers and politicians seemingly feel perturbed at the perilous food insecurity in the country despite tonnes of reports and recommendations put forth to face food insecurity...
The World Bank food security update that has put Bangladesh in the red zone for a year until May 2024 suggests the worsening food insecurity in Bangladesh. The update says that persistent high food inflation has pushed the large majority of low- and fixed-income people into food insecurity. Bangladesh is placed in the red zone with 18 other countries...
The persistent high food price has kept the country in the red zone for the past one year until May 2024 in the food security update of the World Bank.
Speakers at a workshop held at Sech Bhaban in the capital on Tuesday emphasised the importance of integrating nutrition into the agricultural value chain to enhance food security and improve livelihoods...
The general food inflation in April crossed double-digit again after a four-month gap, heightening the risk of food security for the majority of...
THE land minister鈥檚 directive for divisional commissioners to prevent any unauthorised use of arable land for housing, industrial or other commercial purposes is welcome. The minister at a divisional...
