¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·

Skip to main content

Tags : food


img

Food Systems Transformation: Inclusive and climate-responsive solutions stressed

Speakers, including academics, at a national dialogue on Thursday emphasised the need to integrate innovative, inclusive, and climate-responsive solutions into the national agenda, collaboratively shaping the National Food Systems Pathways towards more sustainable, resilient, healthy, and equitable food systems...

img

Effective measures needed to fight inflation, rising poverty

THIS is highly worrying that inflation, especially food inflation, has pushed about 10 per cent of the population, 1.78 crore people, either into poverty or at risk of poverty in 2022–2024. A Research and Policy Integration for Development study has also identified that the segment of people living in extreme poverty has increased from 5.65 per cent in 2022 to 7.95 per cent in...

img

US wholesale prices pick up in Nov

US producer inflation climbed in November, government data showed Thursday, logging its biggest year-on-year increase since February 2023 as food costs jumped...

img

Pathao launches campaign for Ctg users

Ride-hailing and food delivery platform Pathao has unveiled its latest campaign titled ‘O Bodda Only Chittang’ recently, said a press release...

img

Collective efforts needed to reform food systems

Reforming food systems is feasible, but highly complex due to the multitude of stakeholders involved, said Johan Swinnen, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, on Tuesday...

img

Unchecked corruption puts food security at risk

Unbridled corruption particularly in areas related to the agriculture sector has left the country’s food security in peril, the ‘White Paper on the state of Bangladesh economy’ has observed.

img

Labour violation in online services

DIGITAL platform services in Bangladesh, such as Pathao, Uber and Foodpanda, have revolutionised the transportation and food delivery sectors. These companies have provided new employment opportunities and convenience to urban dwellers. However, their operational models have come under scrutiny for systemic labour violations, which exploit...

img

58pc oil used at Rajshahi eateries unhygienic: report

About fifty-eight per cent edible oils used at different hotels and restaurants in Rajshahi are harmful to human health, according to a report of the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority published on Monday...

img

Govt should break market cartels to contain prices

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...

img

RMG workers to get TCB subsidised food items

The government has asked the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh to include about 10 lakh readymade garments workers in its subsidised food items distribution programme to one crore card holders...

img

Towards land degradation-neutral world

LAND acts as the primary source of food. More than eight billion people still draw 99.9 per cent of food from land. Out of agriculture, the first human intervention in the nature, emerged communities, which ultimately brought in pollution. Records show that civilisation has spoilt most of the land people lived on. Neolithic revolution caused changes in the...

img

Digital communication and food supply chain

With growing population and urbanisation in Bangladesh over the decades, the country is faced with the challenge of supplying foods to various destinations without much distortion in prices. In this digital age, it is important to make market information, data and intelligence available to all stakeholders so that no one loses and there is no...

img

Global food prices reach 18-month high: FAO

Global food prices rose in October to their highest level in 18 months, with a sharp increase in the cost of vegetable oil, the Food and Agriculture Organization said on Friday.

img

GAIN holds nutrition campaign in Dinajpur

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and Department of Agricultural Extension jointly organised a nutrition campaign as part of the Diversified Resilient Agriculture for Improved Food and Nutrition Security project at Dinajpur Sadar on Thursday...