Strategic Review of Food Security and Nutrition in Bangladesh

The battle against the challenges with food security and nutrition will have to be fought on many fronts at the same time. In general, anything that promotes broad-based or inclusive growth, thereby raising the real incomes of the poor, will help because it will improve access to more and better food for those who need it the most. In this sense, there is considerable overlap between policies needed for inclusive growth and policies needed for ensuring food security and better nutrition. However, this strategic review abstains from launching into a full-fledged discussion of policies needed for inclusive growth, on the presumption that the broad contours of such a policy framework are by now relatively well understood. Instead, the review chooses to focus on some aspects of public policy that are especially relevant for food security and nutrition, in all their dimensions. These are discussed below under three broad groupings: agriculture, social protection, and nutrition specific interventions.