Despite the bumper production of Aman rice in November-December 2019, the retail rice price has increased in January-February, 2020. According to Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB), the average retail price of fine rice in Dhaka city was within the range of Tk 54 to Tk 60 in the first week of

Of the various disaster risk mitigation Social Safety Net Programmes (SSNPs) run by the Government of Bangladesh, this article discusses three major ones. These are Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF), Gratuitous Relief (GR) and Test Relief (TR).  These SSNPs are designed to protect the poor and vu