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Fish and meat are often withheld from the diets of infants 6 to 12 months in fish-farming households in rural Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Fish is a widely available animal-source food in Bangladesh and a rich source of nutrients, yet little is known about practices related to incorporating fish into the diets of infants and young children. Our study makes ...
Market System and Consumer Dynamic Analysis of the Fish Sector in Bangladesh
Type: Report
Over the last few decades Bangladesh has witnessed population growth and rapid economic growth that has resulted in higher disposable incomes. This has been driving demand for fish.According to statistics from the Department ...
Inclusion of small indigenous fish improves nutritional quality during the first 1000 days
Type: Journal Article
Key contributing factors to undernutrition in low-income countries, including Bangladesh, are low dietary diversity in the diets of women and low nutrient density of traditional complementary foods (CFs) for infants and ...
Selection of small indigenous fish for breeding trials in the states of Assam and Odisha in India
Type: Report
Farming SIS has great potential to increase their availability in the market and make them more accessible
to consumers but scaling up production of cultured SIS will require the development of new captive
breeding techniques. ...
Adopting a gender transformative approach (GTA) to increase dietary diversity and decision-making of women: Evidence form a nutrition-sensitive intervention in Bangladesh
Type: Poster
Given the high levels of malnutrition in Bangladesh and the importance of fish in providing micronutrients, we sought to understand the dietary diversity, level of nutrition knowledge, awareness, and attitude towards fish ...
Festoon for farmers training on nutrition
Type: Poster
Poster on the importance of nutrition of small fish for children and pregnant women in Bangladesh.
The socioeconomics of fish consumption and child health in Bangladesh
Type: Working Paper
Child malnutrition in Bangladesh exceeds WHOs threshold for public health emergencies. Using more than 36,000 records from several waves of the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, the research focuses on the socioeconomic ...
Standard Operating Procedure: Inclusion of small fish in Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP). Pilot study in Odisha, India (Odia version)
Type: Manual
The Odia version of the manual used for training the ICDS functionaries at the field level in the project area. The English version is available at https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/4355
Fish, roots, tubers and bananas: opportunities and constraints for agri-food system integration
Type: Journal Article
Agri-food system integration has the potential to increase and add value to agricultural production, reduce cost of and dependency on external inputs, generate additional income to farmers, and encourage the diversification ...
Non-farmed fish contribute to greater micronutrient intakes than farmed fish: results from an intra-household survey in rural Bangladesh
Type: Journal Article
Fish is the most important animal-source food (ASF) in Bangladesh, produced from capture fisheries (non-farmed) and aquaculture (farmed) sub-sectors. Large differences in micronutrient content of fish species from these ...