How large-scale food fortification will define Bangladesh’s future
Micronutrient deficiencies are a public health challenge in Bangladesh. Many children, women, and vulnerable populations are not getting the nutrients they need for proper brain development, immunity, and physical and mental health. Together with diversified diets, large scale food fortification has the potential to make a significant impact on micronutrient deficiency in Bangladesh.
Utilising Digital Systems to Strengthen Industry Performance
Accelerated digitalization is one of the most significant growth engines for developing nations. With technology driving increased sales and profits globally, a digital quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) system for food fortification in Bangladesh will open THREE paths to greater efficiency and enhanced financial performance for fortified food producers.
Changing Bangladesh’s future – a digital solution to guarantee nutritional quality of staple foods
Monitoring the quality of fortified foods has traditionally been a manual, time-consuming process, which relies primarily on sporadic testing once products have reached the market. A partnership of international specialists and experts is working with Bangladesh’s food producers to develop a platform of sensors and software, enabling oversight of the production process and product quality.
To overcome Zinc deficiency we must leverage biofortified rice in Bangladesh
Too many people across Bangladesh are living with zinc deficiency. One proven and effective way to tackle this is through scaling up production and consumption of rice biofortified with zinc.
COVID-19 Response - EatSafe’s Food Price Monitoring Tool
Use EatSafe's new, interactive Food Price Tool to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted food prices in traditional markets in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
The Commercialisation of Biofortified Crops Programme: Monitoring reference manual
The Commercialisation of Biofortified Crops (CBC) Programme was launched in 2019 to address widespread hidden hunger in Africa and Asia by significantly expanding the reach of foods and food products made with biofortified staple crops.
Nutrition Olympiad: Let the youth Lead in Nutrition
Online Webinar, Bangladesh
Since the Tokyo Nutrition for growth (N4G) Summit is going to be organized by the end of 2021, will be the biggest platform to bring all relevant stakeholders of nutrition with the agenda to highlight nutrition as the priority investment area in development agenda. This will be an unique opportunity for the adolescents & youth, the future leaders to heard their voice, network & share expectations to the global leaders.
EatSafe Surveys for Insights into Markets during COVID-19
From October 2020 to December 2021, EatSafe conducted bi-weekly consumer and vendor surveys in traditional markets to assess the functioning of markets and market actors under COVID-19. The resulting Bulletins and Traditional Market Reports present detailed reports on trends in consumer resilience, vendors' business impacts, and food price changes.