BSS, Dhaka :
Speakers at a parallel session called for ensuring nutrition and food security of the country’s poor people, especially extreme poor, who have been leading inhuman life.
They put emphasis on the issue on Monday while addressing the session, jointly organized by Practical Action, Bangladesh and Concern Worldwide, at Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University.
Additional Secretary and National Project Director, Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme Mohammad Abdul Qayyum, Director, Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies Dr. Mahbuba Nasreen, Country Director of Micro-Nutrient Initiative, Bangladesh Dr. SM Mustafizur Rahman, among others, addressed the session chaired by acting Country Director of Practical action, Bangladesh, Dr Faruk ul Islam.
The session was held as part of the South Asia Right to Food (SARF) Conference, 2015.
The speakers said employment generation in the rural areas can check the increasing influx of the poor people in the cities. Scope to employment in their respective areas can ensure food and nutritional security for them.
In his key-note paper ‘Food Security for the River Eroded Extreme Poor People of the North-Western region of Bangladesh’, Head of Extreme Poverty Programme of Practical Action Nazmul Islam Chowdhury said country’s barren and char lands can be utilized for cultivation, which would increase food production and generate employment.
“There is a vast transitional land, which appears on the river bed each year (estimated 1792 sq. km), and again disappear in the monsoon. This land has been found highly potential and being used for pumpkin cultivation by extreme poor people following pit approach, which has been contributing significantly to poverty reduction”, he said. The session was told that Practical Action, since 2005, has been successful in using the transitional sandbar effectively and demonstrated significant production of pumpkins following pit approach. The pit technology is now spreading over to new areas in the northern region.
Speakers at a parallel session called for ensuring nutrition and food security of the country’s poor people, especially extreme poor, who have been leading inhuman life.
They put emphasis on the issue on Monday while addressing the session, jointly organized by Practical Action, Bangladesh and Concern Worldwide, at Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of Dhaka University.
Additional Secretary and National Project Director, Comprehensive Disaster Management Programme Mohammad Abdul Qayyum, Director, Institute of Disaster Management and Vulnerability Studies Dr. Mahbuba Nasreen, Country Director of Micro-Nutrient Initiative, Bangladesh Dr. SM Mustafizur Rahman, among others, addressed the session chaired by acting Country Director of Practical action, Bangladesh, Dr Faruk ul Islam.
The session was held as part of the South Asia Right to Food (SARF) Conference, 2015.
The speakers said employment generation in the rural areas can check the increasing influx of the poor people in the cities. Scope to employment in their respective areas can ensure food and nutritional security for them.
In his key-note paper ‘Food Security for the River Eroded Extreme Poor People of the North-Western region of Bangladesh’, Head of Extreme Poverty Programme of Practical Action Nazmul Islam Chowdhury said country’s barren and char lands can be utilized for cultivation, which would increase food production and generate employment.
“There is a vast transitional land, which appears on the river bed each year (estimated 1792 sq. km), and again disappear in the monsoon. This land has been found highly potential and being used for pumpkin cultivation by extreme poor people following pit approach, which has been contributing significantly to poverty reduction”, he said. The session was told that Practical Action, since 2005, has been successful in using the transitional sandbar effectively and demonstrated significant production of pumpkins following pit approach. The pit technology is now spreading over to new areas in the northern region.
