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Changes in the Policy Environment For Infant and Young Child feeding in Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia, and the Role of Targeted Advocacy

Published by: BioMed Central

There is limited literature examining shifts in policy environments for nutrition and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) over time, and on the potential contribution of targeted advocacy to improved policy environments in low- and middle-income countries. examined the role of targeted nutrition

Market Systems Approaches and ‘Leaving No One Behind’

Published by: The BEAM Exchange

Substantial progress has been achieved internationally on reducing poverty since the launch of the Millennium Development Goals over 15...

Bangladesh’s Story of Change in Nutrition: Strong Improvements in Basic and Underlying Determinants with an Unfinished Agenda for Direct Community Level Support

Published by: Elsevier

Bangladesh has made considerable progress in reducing child stunting and is lauded as a success story in global nutrition fora. This...

The 1970 Bhola Cyclone, Nationalist Politics and the Subsistence Crisis Contract in Bangladesh

This paper starts by analysing the political effects of disasters: a social contract against crises of subsistence and survival. The paper then studies the storm itself, and the politics of disaster management. It examines the impacts on Pakistani political legitimacy and the world's reaction to the events in Bangladesh. The conclusion analyses the subsistence crisis mandate of the Bangladeshi state.

Social Accountabilty Initatives in Health and Nutrition: Lessons from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

South Asia is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s population and is a region of dynamic economic growth, yet it performs relatively poorly on health and nutrition indicators. As a potential route towards addressing this poor performance, a range of accountability initiatives has been implemented to improve service delivery in the health and nutrition sectors.

Review of Agri-Food Chain Interventions Aimed at Enhancing Consumption of Nutritious Food by the Poor: Bangladesh

Published by: Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA)

Bangladesh is primarily an agrarian nation. Most of the people of the country directly or indirectly depend on agriculture. Rural people...

Fragile Environment, Seasonality, and Maternal and Childhood Undernutrition in Bangladesh

Published by: Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA)

Spatial distribution of poverty in Bangladesh shows that poverty is concentrated in ecologically unfavourable areas. Recently, the issue...

Does Agriculture Promote Diet Diversity? A Bangladesh Study

Published by: Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA)

It is now widely recognised that intake of sufficient dietary energy does not ensure adequate intake of protein and micronutrients...