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1) Forthcoming:
  • Murshid, K. A. S. (forthcoming) | Study on Determination of Food Availability and Consumption Patterns
    and Lifting Up of Nutritional Standards in Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Institute of
    Development Studies (BIDS), forthcoming.
  • Murshid, K. A. S.; Zulfiqar Ali; Nazneen Ahmed; and Md. Yunus (forthcoming) | Food Fortification:
    Combating Intergenerational Malnutrition among the Extreme Poor in Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh:
    Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), forthcoming.
  • SAARC Human Resource Development Centre (SHRDC) (forthcoming) | Attaining Food and Nutrition
    Security in South Asia | Islamabad, Pakistan: SAARC Human Resource Development Centre, forthcoming.

2) 2009:
  • Ahmed, Nesar and J. Luong-Van (2009) | Can rice-fish farming provide food security in Bangladesh? |
    Aquaculture Asia, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 18-23; http://www.enaca.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1814.
  • Center for Natural Resource Studies (CNRS); M. Mokhlesur Rahman; M. Anisul Islam; and Elias Habib
    (2009) | Adaptive Crop Agriculture Including Innovative Farming Practices in Haor Basin | Dhaka,
    Bangladesh: GoB, Ministry of Food and Disaster Management, and Ministry of Environment and Forests,
    Department of Environment (DoE), Climate Change Cell, Climate Change Adaptation Research (date on
    cover: December 2008).
  • Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (GoB), Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF),
    Climate Change Cell and Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) (2009)
    | Adaptive Crop Agriculture Including Innovative -- Farming Practices in the Coastal Zone of Bangladesh |
    Dhaka, Bangladesh: GoB, Ministry of Food and Disaster Management, and Ministry of Environment and
    Forests, Department of Environment (DoE), Climate Change Cell, Climate Change Adaptation Research.
  • Khan, Mizan R. and Md. Sirajul Islam (2009) | Crop Insurance as a Risk Management Strategy in
    Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh: GoB, Ministry of Food and Disaster Management, and Ministry of
    Environment and Forests, Department of Environment (DoE), Climate Change Cell, Climate Change
    Adaptation Research.
  • Khan, Mizan R. and Md. Sirajul Islam (2009) | Crop Insurance as an Instrument of Adaptation to Climate
    Change: The Bangladesh Context | Presentation made at the 3rd International Conference on Community
    Based Adaptation (CBA) to Climate Change, Dhaka, Bangladesh (February 18-24); http://www.bcas.
    net/3rd%20CBA%20Workshop2009/Documents/day5/ts-1b/D5-TSIB-P5-Mizan.pdf.
  • Khatun, Fahmida A. (2009) | Trade, Climate Change and Food Security in Bangladesh: Agenda for
    Copenhagen | Paper presented at the Conference on Ideas and Innovations for the Development of
    Bangladesh: The Next Decade, Harvard University, Boston (October 9-10).
  • Mondal, M. Shahjahan and Mollah Md. Awlad Hossain (2009) | Characterizing Long-term Changes of
    Bangladesh -- Climate in Context of Agriculture and Irrigation | Dhaka, Bangladesh: GoB, Ministry of Food
    and Disaster Management, and Ministry of Environment and Forests, Department of Environment (DoE),
    Climate Change Cell, Climate Change Research (date on cover: November 2008); http://www.
    climatechangecell-bd.org/publications/ResearchDocs/LongtermChanges_Jan'09.pdf.
  • Page, Sam L. J.; Md. Elahi Baksh, Etienne Duveiller; and Stephen R. Waddington (2009) | Putting the
    poorest farmers in control of disseminating improved wheat seed: a strategy to accelerate technology
    adoption and alleviate poverty in Bangladesh | Food Security, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 99-109.
  • Rahman, Sanzidur (2009) | Whether crop diversification is a desired strategy for agricultural growth in
    Bangladesh? | Food Policy, Vol. 34, No. 4 (August), pp. 340-349.

3) 2008:
  • Adelman, Sarah W.; Daniel O. Gilligan; and Kim Lehrer (2008) | How Effective are Food for Education
    Programs? A Critical Assessment of the Evidence from Developing Countries | Washington, DC, USA:
    International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), IFPRI Food Policy Review, No. 9.
  • Ahsan, S.; M. R. Hoque; M. S. Osman; M. J. Babar; M. Shawkat; S. A. Begum. M. Rahman; and K. R. Islam
    (2008) | Agricultural and Environmental Change in Bangladesh in Response to Global Warming |
    Presentation made at the International Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia in
    Dhaka (August 25-29); http://www.wmo.ch/pages/prog/wcp/agm/meetings/rsama08/rsama08_present.
    html.
  • Aksoy, M. Ataman and Aylin Isik-Dikmelik (2008) | Are Low Food Prices Pro-Poor? Net Food Buyers and
    Sellers in Low-Income Countries | Washington, DC, USA: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper,
    WPS4642 (June); http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/asin-7falp3/$file/world%20bank_are%20low%
    20food%20prices%20pro-poor.pdf?openelement.
  • Ali, A. M. M. Shawkat; Ishrat Jahan; Akhter Ahmed; and Shahidur Rashid (2008) | Public food distribution
    system in Bangladesh : successful reforms and remaining challenges | In: Shahidur Rashid, Ashok Gulati,
    and Ralph Cummings, Jr. (eds.) From parastatals to private trade : lessons from Asian agriculture
    (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press; and Washington DC: International Food Policy Research
    Institute), Chapter 5.
  • Anonymous (2008) | Bangladesh: Millions Are in Fight for Food | Executive Intelligence Review, Vol. 35,
    No. 17, pp. 17-18.
  • Asaduzzaman, Md. (2008) | The Long and Short of Food Security in Bangladesh | Dhaka, Bangladesh:
    UNDP Bangladesh, Policy Dialogue, No. 34 (13 May); http://www.undp.org.bd/library/policypapers/The%
    20Long%20and%20Short%20of%20Food%20Security%20.pdf.
  • Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2008) | Proposed Loan and Technical Assistance Grant -- People's
    Republic of Bangladesh: Emergency Assistance for Food Security Project | Manila, The Philippines: Asian
    Development Bank (ADB), Report and Recommendation of the President, Project No. 42166 (July); http:
    //www.adb.org/Documents/RRPs/BAN/42166-BAN-RRP.pdf.
  • Bangladesh Bank, Policy Analysis Unit (2008) | Rationalizing Food Demand and Supply Estimates: An
    Exploratory Note | Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Bank, Research Department, Policy Analysis Unit
    (PAU), Policy Paper, 0805 (June); http://www.bangladesh-bank.org/research/policypaper/pp0805.pdf.
  • Chowdhury, Jafar Ahmed (2008) | Agriculture, Food Security and Poverty Reduction | Dhaka,
    Bangladesh: Ismail Hossain Bakul.
  • Fang, Cheng; James Breen; Benjamin Badjeck; Michael Sheinkman; and John McHarris (2008) |
    FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to Bangladesh | Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture
    Organization of the United Nation and World Food Programme (August); http://documents.wfp.
    org/stellent/groups/public/documents/liaison_offices/wfp188725.pdf.
  • Huda, S. S. M. Sadrul; Ahmed Taneem Muzaffar; and Jashim Uddin Ahmed (2008) | The Perception on
    Food Quality among Urban People | Dhaka, Bangladesh: American International University-Bangladesh
    (AIUB) AIUB Business and Economics Working Paper Series, No 2008-17; http://orp.aiub.
    edu/FileZone/OtherFiles/orpadmin-8589891075233560808/AIUB-BUS-ECON-2008-17.pdf.
  • Hussain, Sk. Guhlam (2008) | Assessing Impacts of Climate Change on Cereal Production and Food
    Security in Bangladesh | Presentation made at the International Symposium on Climate Change and Food
    Security in South Asia in Dhaka (August 25-29); http://www.wamis.org/agm/meetings/rsama08/Bari102-
    Hussain_Ag-Food-Security.pdf.
  • Irfanullah, Haseeb Md.; A. Adrika; A. Ghani; Z. A. Khan; and M. A. Rashid (2008) | Introduction of floating
    gardening in the north-eastern wetlands of Bangladesh for nutritional security and sustainable livelihood |
    Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 89-96.
  • Islam, M. B.; M. Y. Ali; M. Amin; and Sk. M. Zaman (2008) | Climatic Variations: Farming Systems and
    Livelihoods in the High Barind Tract and Coastal Areas of Bangladesh | Presentation made at the
    International Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia in Dhaka (August 25-29);
    http://www.wamis.org/agm/meetings/rsama08/Bari201-Islam-Farming-Systems.pdf.
  • Islam, M. Sirajul; A. A. Mahbub; and M. S. Islam (2008) | Cool Rice for a Warmer Environment Concept,
    Progress and Prospect | Presentation made at the International Symposium on Climate Change and Food
    Security in South Asia in Dhaka (August 25-29); http://www.wamis.org/agm/meetings/rsama08/Bari202-
    Islam_Cool-Rice.pdf.
  • Islam, Md. Saidul (2008) | From pond to plate: Towards a twin-driven commodity chain in Bangladesh
    shrimp aquaculture | Food Policy, Vol. 33, No. 3 (June), pp. 209-223.
  • Islam, Md. Shirazul and Md. Harun-ur-Rashid (2008) | Climate Change and Sustainable Irrigation
    Management for High Value Crops in Bangladesh | Presentation made at the International Symposium on
    Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia in Dhaka (August 25-29); http://www.wamis.
    org/agm/meetings/rsama08/Bari403-Islam_Irrigation-High-Value-Crops.pdf.
  • Khan, M. S.; R. Sen; S. Noor; H. M. Naser; and M. K. Alam (2008) | Soil, Water and Climate Related
    Constraints for Crop Production in Bangladesh | Presentation made at the International Symposium on
    Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia in Dhaka (August 25-29); http://www.wamis.
    org/agm/meetings/rsama08/Bari402-Khan_Constraints-Crop-Production.pdf.
  • Mazhar, Farhad (2008) | Nayakrishi Experience: Addressing Food Crisis through Biodiversity-based
    Ecological Production Systems | Dhaka, Bangladesh: UNDP Bangladesh, Policy Dialogue, No. 36 (July 8);
    http://www.undp.org.bd/library/policypapers/Keynote%20paper.pdf.
  • Murshid, K. A. S. (2008) | Food Production, Nutrition and Prices: Policy Insights | Dhaka, Bangladesh:
    Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Seminar on National Budget 2008-09: Challenges
    and Response (9. April).
  • Nasreen, Mahbuba (2008) | Impact of Climate Change on Food Security in Bangladesh: Gender and
    Disaster Perspectives | Presentation made at the International Symposium on Climate Change and Food
    Security in South Asia in Dhaka (August 25-29); http://www.wamis.org/agm/meetings/rsama08/S203-
    Nasreen-Bangladesh.pdf.
  • Perveen, Farida; R. Nagasawa; A. O. Cherif Ahmed; Md. Imtiaz Uddin; and R. Kimura (2008) | Integrating
    biophysical and socio-economic data using GIS for land evaluation of wheat cultivation: A case study in
    north-west Bangladesh | Journal of Food Agriculture and Environment, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 432-437.
  • Saha, Kuntal K.; Edward A. Frongillo; Dewan S. Alam; Shams E. Arifeen; Lars Ake Persson; and Kathleen
    M. Rasmussen (2008) | Household Food Security Is Associated with Infant Feeding Practices in Rural
    Bangladesh | The Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 138, No. 7 (July), pp. 1383-1390.
  • Spijkers, Ad (2008) | Implications of Climate Change for Agriculture and Food Security in South Asia |
    Presentation made at the International Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia in
    Dhaka (August 25-29); http://www.wamis.org/agm/meetings/rsama08/S202-Spijkers-
    Implications_Climate_Change_FAO.pdf.
  • Sultana, W.; M. A. Aziz; and F. Ahmed (2008) | Climate change: Impact on Crop Production and its
    Copping Strategies | Presentation made at the International Symposium on Climate Change and Food
    Security in South Asia in Dhaka (August 25-29); http://www.wamis.org/agm/meetings/rsama08/Bari103-
    Sultana_Coping_Strategies.pdf.
  • Talukder, R. K. (2008) | Food Security, Self-Sufficiency and Nutrition Gap in Bangladesh | Bangladesh
    Development Studies (The), Vol. 31, No. 3-4 (September-December).
  • Toufique, Kazi Ali and Rick Gregory (2008) | Common waters and private lands: Distributional impacts of
    floodplain aquaculture in Bangladesh | Food Policy, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 587-594.
  • World Bank (2008) | Bangladesh - Food Crisis Development Support Credit Project | Washington, DC,
    USA: World Bank, Report No. AB4128 (Project Information Document, August); http://go.worldbank.
    org/SCB4JQ36Y0.
  • Yusuf, Harun K. M.; Subash Dasgupta; and M. A. Halim Khan (2008) | Climate Change: An Emerging
    Threat to Agriculture and Food Security in Bangladesh | Presentation made at the International
    Symposium on Climate Change and Food Security in South Asia in Dhaka (August 25-29); http://www.
    wamis.org/agm/meetings/rsama08/Bari101-Yusuf-Climate-Change.pdf.

4) 2007:
  • Ahmed, Akhter U.; Agnes R. Quisumbing; and John F. Hoddinott; in collaboration with Mahbuba Nasreen;
    Elizabeth Bryan; and the Data Analysis and Technical Assistance Limited (2007) | Relative Efficacy of
    Food and Cash Transfers in Improving Food Security and Livelihoods of the Ultra-Poor in Bangladesh |
    Washington, DC, USA: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Dhaka, Bangladesh:
    World Food Programme; http://documents.wfp.
    org/stellent/groups/public/documents/liaison_offices/wfp144615.pdf.
  • Alam, Md. Jahangir and G. van Huylengroec (2007) | Policy Evolution in the Foodgrain Markets in
    Bangladesh: The Case of Domestic Procurement, Importation and Distribution | Indian Journal of
    Agricultural Marketing, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 100-113.
  • Babu, Suresh C. and William Reidhead (2007) | Measuring the benefits of development research - a case
    study of food policy reforms in Bangladesh | Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture, Vol. 46, No. 2,
    pp. 159-182.
  • Benson, Todd (2007) | Study of household food security in urban slum areas of Bangladesh, 2006 : final
    report for World Food Programme | Dhaka, Bangladesh: United Nations World Food Programme
    (February).
  • del Ninno, Carlo; Paul A. Dorosh; and Kalanidhi Subbarao (2007) | Food aid, domestic policy and food
    security: Contrasting experiences from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa | Food Policy, Vol. 32, No. 4,
    pp. 413-435; http://www.livelihoods.org/hot_topics/docs/Ninno%20Dorosh%20Subbarao.pdf.
  • International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and USAID Mission to Bangladesh (2007) |
    Food security in Bangladesh: improving wheat, maize and papaya production, and impacts of arsenic
    contamination | Washington, DC, USA: United States Agency for International Development (USAID),
    USAID grant number 388-G-00-02-00070-00: final program performance report for the period July 2002
    to June 2007; http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACK219.pdf.
  • Mazhar, Farhad; Daniel Buckles; P. V. Satheesh; and Farida Akhter (2007) | Food Sovereignty and
    Uncultivated Biodiversity in South Asia - Essays on the Poverty of Food Policy and the Wealth of the
    Social Landscape | New Delhi, India: Academic Foundation, in association with International Development
    Research Centre (IDRC).
  • Meng, Xin and Jim Ryan (2007) | Does a food for education program affect school outcomes? The
    Bangladesh case | Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), IZA Discussion Paper, No. 2557;
    ftp://repec.iza.org/RePEc/Discussionpaper/dp2557.pdf.
  • Murshid, K. A. S. (2007) | Globalization, Food Security and Bio-Security | Paper presented at the BIDS
    Seminar on ‘Pro-Poor Growth and Food Security: Recent Experience in Bangladesh’ (August 16).
  • Razzaque, Mohammad A. and Mohammad Mokammel Karim Toufique (2007) | Does Women’s Status
    Matter for Food Security? Evidence from Bangladesh | Helsinki, Finland: United Nations University (UNU) /
    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), WIDER Research Paper, No. 2007/79
    (November); http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/research-papers/2007/en_GB/rp2007-
    79/.
  • Roos, Nanna; Md. Abdul Wahab; Chhoun Chamnan; and Shakuntala H. Thilsted (2007) | The Role of Fish
    in Food-Based Strategies to Combat Vitamin A and Mineral Deficiencies in Developing Countries | The
    Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 137, pp. 1106-1109.
  • Roy, Swapan Kumar; Saira Parveen Jolly; Sohana Shafique; George J. Fuchs; Zeba Mahmud; Barnali
    Chakraborty; and Suchismita Roy (2007) | Prevention of malnutrition among young children in rural
    Bangladesh by a food-health-care educational intervention: A randomized, controlled trial | Food and
    Nutrition Bulletin, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 375-383.
  • United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2007 | Food Safety and Environmental
    Requirements in Export Markets - Friend or Foe for Producers of Fruit and Vegetables in Asian
    Developing Countries? | Geneva, Switzerland: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
    (UNCTAD); http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/ditcted20068_en.pdf.
  • Waddington, Stephen R. 2007 | Food Security in Bangladesh: Improving Wheat, Maize and Papaya
    Production, and Impacts of Arsenic Contamination | Mexico, D.F., Mexico: International Maize and Wheat
    Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Final Program Performance Report for the Period July 2002 to June 2007
    (USAID Grant No. 388-G-00-02-00070-00).
Recognizing October 16, 2009 as
World Food Day
the BDRC provides
a list of new publications
related to
food security in Bangladesh