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Food is a basic human need for human survival. To achieve Millennium Development Goals, food security has become top most concern for Bangladesh. This paper examines performance, challenges and policies in food security in terms of availability, access, and absorption or nutrition. Specifically, this paper focuses on the progress in supply side of food in terms of availability at the national level and how far has Bangladesh progressed in attaining access to food and nutrition requirements at the household level. The paper argues in favor of strengthening the role of various social safety net programs, increasing subsidy in agriculture sector and enhancing purchasing power of the people food security production and availability of food grains. This paper has also given attention on the effect of inflation on price of food grains. The paper concludes that Bangladesh should target self-sufficiency in food grains production to satisfy domestic demand in normal production years.
Sanjoy Kumar Saha. 2016. \u201cFood Security Status in Bangladesh: An Analytical Overview\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - E: Economics GJHSS-E Volume 16 (GJHSS Volume 16 Issue E2): .
Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/GJHSS
Print ISSN 0975-587X
e-ISSN 2249-460X
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Country: Bangladesh
Subject: Global Journal of Human-Social Science - E: Economics
Authors: Sanjoy Kumar Saha (PhD/Dr. count: 0)
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Publish Date: 2016 07, Fri
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Food is a basic human need for human survival. To achieve Millennium Development Goals, food security has become top most concern for Bangladesh. This paper examines performance, challenges and policies in food security in terms of availability, access, and absorption or nutrition. Specifically, this paper focuses on the progress in supply side of food in terms of availability at the national level and how far has Bangladesh progressed in attaining access to food and nutrition requirements at the household level. The paper argues in favor of strengthening the role of various social safety net programs, increasing subsidy in agriculture sector and enhancing purchasing power of the people food security production and availability of food grains. This paper has also given attention on the effect of inflation on price of food grains. The paper concludes that Bangladesh should target self-sufficiency in food grains production to satisfy domestic demand in normal production years.
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