: Expanding Community Interventions to Improve Nutrition in Bangladesh by Raisul Haque, Kaosar Afsana, Tina Sanghvi, Saiqa Siraj … System of Rice Intensification in Northern Vietnam by Gina E. Castillo, Minh Nguyet Le, and Kimberly Pfeifer •The Bill …

policy use case studies from South Asia (Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan) and East Asia (Indonesia, the Philippines, and …

Rice is a strategic commodity for food security in West Africa. Its consumption has grown rapidly over time as a result … of population growth, urbanization, and increasing purchasing power. Dependency on imported rice exposes the region to … developed a national strategy for rice development alongside their agricultural sector-wide policy. In addition, the Economic …

Abiotic stresses such as droughts and floods significantly constrain rice production in India. New stress …

This paper therefore analyzes agriculture and nutrition linkages in Bangladesh, a country that achieved rapid growth in … rice productivity at a relatively late stage in Asia’s Green Revolution, as well as unheralded progress against … Health Surveys (1997 to 2011) with district-level estimates of rice yields. Using various panel estimators, they find rice …

In Bangladesh—one of the poorest countries in Asia, where rice accounts for almost 70 percent of consumers' caloric … intake—the share of the less expensive, low-quality coarse rice is shown to be rapidly decreasing in rice markets and the … quality premium for the best-quality rice has been consistently on the rise in the last decades. It thus seems that the role …