The Status of Food Security in the Feed the Future Zone and Other Regions of Bangladesh: Results from the 2011-2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey

This report presents results of analyses of the IFPRI household survey data on various topics that combined represent the current food security situation in Bangladesh. Specifically the study examines how that situation varies between the FTF zone of influence in the southern region and other regions throughout the country.This report is organized in seven sections. The rest of section 1 describes the FTF initiative in Bangladesh and presents a conceptual framework of food security. Section 2 describes the BIHS which provides the data used in the empirical work. Section 3 gives a profile of survey households. Section 4 addresses the food availability aspect of food security by focusing on agricultural production and practices. It describes the agrarian structure in terms of landlessness and landholding patterns and land tenure the use of production inputs farmers’ access to credit and agricultural extension services the extent of women’s participation in agricultural production and post-harvest operations and agricultural product marketing and farm-level stock of rice. Section 5 looks into the role of income and social safety nets in providing households with access to food. Section 6 discusses food utilization and nutrition issues. Section 7 summarizes the main findings and provides policy conclusions.