IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/ijarit/305394.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Small Scale Integrated Agriculture: A Tool Of Poverty Alleviation, Gender Equality Promotion And Improving Food Security At Household Level In Coastal Region Of Bangladesh

Author

Listed:
  • Begum, M.R.
  • Islam, M.N.
  • Khan, M.S.I.
  • Tapu, M.A.I.

Abstract

In developing countries, small scale integrated agriculture acts as a tool for supplying the fast-growing human population with high-quality protein, additional income to poor and food security to household, especially women. This study was conducted in different SLOPBBangladesh project areas of Patuakhali, a coastal district of Bangladesh to observe the effect of small scale integrated agriculture on poverty alleviation, equality of gender promotion and food security at household level. After baseline survey with a structured questionnaire, a total of 583 women beneficiaries were selected from poor communities and given training and technical support on family poultry, aquaculture and homestead gardening from 2008 to 2012. Data of income were collected in every month and analyzed by one way ANOVA or F-test, used to test significant difference among the mean income of different years and one sample t-test, used to test the significance difference in percent (%) of yearly increase income in different years and from baseline. It was postulated that, the number of income getting women grew in an upward trend along the advances of time, and average yearly income became significantly from baseline and rose to 246, and 566.42% for family poultry and homestead gardening respectively. For all three activities, it was significantly climbed to 281.79%, which brings better food and nutritional security in household, and the women were self-employed, empowered, and more esteemed to their family members as well as society than ever before.

Suggested Citation

  • Begum, M.R. & Islam, M.N. & Khan, M.S.I. & Tapu, M.A.I., 2015. "Small Scale Integrated Agriculture: A Tool Of Poverty Alleviation, Gender Equality Promotion And Improving Food Security At Household Level In Coastal Region Of Bangladesh," International Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation and Technology (IJARIT), IJARIT Research Foundation, vol. 5(2), December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ijarit:305394
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.305394
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/305394/files/26280-Article%20Text-94856-1-10-20160104.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.305394?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Mahabub Hossain, 2004. "Poverty Alleviation Through Agriculture and Rural Development in Bangladesh," CPD Working Paper 39, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).
    2. Uddin, Mohammad Taj & Takeya, Hiroyuki, 2006. "Comparative Study On Integrated Farming In Bangladesh And Other Countries," Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, vol. 29(1-2), pages 1-12.
    3. World Bank, 2002. "Poverty in Bangladesh : Building on Progress," World Bank Publications - Reports 15303, The World Bank Group.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Talukder, Dayal & Chile, Love, 2014. "Characteristics of Rice Cultivation and Rural Rice Market in Bangladesh: Evidence from a Survey," Agricultural Economics Review, Greek Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 15(2), pages 1-17.
    2. World Bank, 2007. "Sri Lanka - Poverty Assessment : Engendering Growth with Equity, Opportunities and Challenges," World Bank Publications - Reports 8050, The World Bank Group.
    3. Munshi Sulaiman & Mehnaz Rabbani & Vivek A. Prakash, 2010. "Impact Assessment of CFPR/TUP: A Descriptive Analysis Based on 2002-2005 Panel Data," Working Papers id:2567, eSocialSciences.
    4. Ali, Zulfiqar, 2014. "Economic Costs of Disability in Bangladesh," Bangladesh Development Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), vol. 37(04), pages 17-33, December.
    5. Howard White & Edoardo Masset, 2007. "Assessing interventions to improve child nutrition: a theory-based impact evaluation of the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(5), pages 627-652.
    6. Xin Meng & Jim Ryan, 2003. "Evaluating the Food for Education Program in Bangladesh," ASARC Working Papers 2003-07, The Australian National University, Australia South Asia Research Centre.
    7. Zaman, Hassan & Narayan , Ambar & Kotikula, Aphichoke, 2012. "Are Bangladesh's Recent Gains in Poverty Reduction Different from the Past?," Bangladesh Development Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), vol. 35(1), pages 1-26, March.
    8. Jannatul Ferdous, 2020. "Rural development in Bangladesh: An assessment of training, research and action research of Bangladesh academy for rural development (BARD)," Journal of Community Positive Practices, Catalactica NGO, issue 4, pages 25-40.
    9. Operations Evaluation Department, 2005. "Maintaining Momentum to 2015 : An Impact Evaluation of Interventions to Improve Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Bangladesh," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 7372.
    10. Rie Makita, 2007. "Exploring Partnership Enterprise For The Rural Poor Through An Experimental Poultry Program In Bangladesh," Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 12(02), pages 217-237.
    11. Shawkat Ali, A. M. M. & Jahan, Ishrat & Ahmed, Akhter & Rashid, Shahidur, 2008. "Public food distribution system in Bangladesh: Successful reforms and remaining challenges," IFPRI book chapters, in: Rashid, Shahidur & Gulati, Ashok & Cummings, Jr., Ralph (ed.), From parastatals to private trade: Lessons from Asian agriculture, chapter 5, pages 103-134, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    12. Shahidur Khandker & Gayatri Koolwal, 2010. "How Infrastructure and Financial Institutions Affect Rural Income and Poverty: Evidence from Bangladesh," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(6), pages 1109-1137.
    13. Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul, 2008. "Rural Craftsmanship, Employment Creation and Poverty Alleviation: The Case of the Bamboo Craftsmanship in Bangladesh," MPRA Paper 9616, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    14. Howard White & Edoardo Masset & Nina Blondal & Hugh Waddington, 2005. "Maintaining Momentum to 2015? An impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh," Development and Comp Systems 0510004, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    15. Dayal Talukder & Love Chile, 2018. "Technological Innovation And Total Factor Productivity Growth Of Rice Production In Bangladesh In The Post-Liberalisation Era," Global Economic Observer, "Nicolae Titulescu" University of Bucharest, Faculty of Economic Sciences;Institute for World Economy of the Romanian Academy, vol. 6(2), pages 50-70, December.
    16. Hossain, Mohammad Ismail & Begum, Mst. Esmat Ara & Papadopoulou, Eleni & Semos, Anastasios, 2012. "Rural Development in Bangladesh since Independence: A Study on Progress and Performance," Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, Asian Economic and Social Society (AESS), vol. 2(03), pages 1-13, September.
    17. World Bank, 2005. "Bangladesh : Growth and Export Competitiveness," World Bank Publications - Reports 8569, The World Bank Group.
    18. Alam, S.B. & Nasrin, M.A., 2007. "Role Of Agriculture In Reducing Poverty Of Bangladesh," Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, vol. 30(1), pages 1-16, June.
    19. repec:ilo:ilowps:387056 is not listed on IDEAS
    20. Omar Haider Chowdhury & Zulfiqar Ali, 2010. "Affordability to Finance Poverty Reduction Programmes," Working Papers id:2527, eSocialSciences.
    21. Dietrich, Simone, 2011. "The Politics of Public Health Aid: Why Corrupt Governments Have Incentives to Implement Aid Effectively," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 55-63, January.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Food Security and Poverty;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:ijarit:305394. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ijarit.webs.com/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.