Bangladesh

Do Consumers Consider Environmental Factors When Making Food Choices?

The world is facing multiple interconnected crises, including climate change and escalating conflicts, which pose significant challenges to food systems. These issues highlight the need for systemic transformation to improve food security, nutrition, and environmental sustainability. In response, GAIN's Nourishing Food Pathways (NFP) programme aims to strengthen and support the implementation of food system pathways in 11 countries. One focus of NFP is exploring the intersection between food and environment, including climate change, to identify consumer actions that promote both nutrition and environmental sustainability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Specifically, GAIN is interested in understanding if our Emotivate™ approach, which leverages emotions to motivate consumers to want better diets, can be extended to include emotions or values associated with environmental sustainability. Our initial hypothesis was that consumers felt emotional tensions related to environmental sustainability as a driver of food choices, which could be leveraged to develop an emotionally resonant campaign.

Bangladesh Fact Sheet

WHA Global Nutrition Stunting Target 2012-2025 Achieve a 40% reduction in the number of children under-5 who are stunted WHA Global Nutrition Overweight Target 2012-2025 Ensure that there is no increase in childhood overweight

A Win-Win Case for People and Planet in Bangladesh

Malnutrition and climate change are two of the most pressing challenges facing humanity today – and they are intrinsically connected. While food systems contribute to land degradation and roughly one-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, climate change in turn jeopardizes the nutrient quality of staple crops.

Participatory Open Access Food Systems Dashboard Empowers South

Foresight analysis of diet transformation in Bangladesh_A scenario simulation study

Can AI Chatbots Help Demystify Food Policies?

Using OpenAI LLM (GPT-4o) and embedding models, GAIN developed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)-based chatbot and connected it to a database of 28 publicly accessible food and nutrition policy documents from Bangladesh.

Tackling Micronutrient Deficiency in Bangladesh: The Role of Biofortified Zinc Rice (BZR)

Malnutrition and food insecurity remain a pressing issue in Bangladesh, with significant implications for public health. Despite improvements in agricultural productivity and food security, the country continues to grapple with micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs), particularly zinc deficiency, which affects vulnerable populations, especially women and children.

4th Global Foresight4Food Workshop

03 June 2024 - 07 June 2024 , Bangladesh

The 4th Global Foresight4Food Workshop will be held on June 3 - 7, 2024 at BRAC CDM Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The event will be hosted by the government of Bangladesh along with the Foresight4Food Initiative (Oxford University and Wageningen University & Research) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), World Food Programme (WFP), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the government of the Netherlands, in association with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI), and The World Bank.

A Comprehensive Data Dashboard to Transform Bangladesh’s Food Systems

To successfully execute Bangladesh’s National Pathway for the Sustainable, Equitable and Resilient Food Systems Transformation, it is conducive for all actors in the food system to have consistent and easy-to-access data for informed decision-making. To meet this need, the Government of Bangladesh and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in collaboration with the Columbia Climate School, FAO, different ministries including Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Agriculture, and other relevant ministries, departments, agencies, development partners, academia, and private sector developed the Bangladesh Food Systems Dashboard (BDFSD) integrating national and subnational level data.