Research country Bangladesh Donor United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Project duration

2018 – 2023 Budget

USD 24.5 million Partners

Advanced Chemical Industries

Limited - ACI

Project Summary

Contribution to Outcomes

12,475 households adopted management practices

1

56,139 people, of which 50% are women, assisted to exit poverty

2

1,010 more people, of which 50% are women, without deficiencies in one or more essential micronutrients

3

2,086 Hectares pond area under improved management

4

Feed the Future Nutrition Activity Bangladesh (BANA) Project brief October 2018 to September 2019

BANA focuses on aquaculture as an avenue toward improved

nutrition and has strong cross cutting elements of environment,

youth, and gender which are inculcated into sub-awardees. The

agreement goals are inclusive aquaculture sector growth to

increase productivity in aquaculture production systems,

strengthen the aquaculture market system with particular

attention to expanding opportunities for women and youth, and

increased the awareness and adoption of nutrition-related

behaviors with a particular focus on women and youth.

7,248 people trained of which 80% are

women

Topics covered

Pond dike cropping and homestead gardening

management

Pre- and in-time stoking management of fish

fingerlings

Food and nutrition classification of food

according to use micronutrient vitamin A and

iron

Increase productivity, supplement fish feed and

drugging after stoking fish fingerlings

Introduce and nutritive value of domestic small

fish, complementary feeding and gender

Importance and steps of appropriate hand

washing, use of tippy tap and orange sweet

potato cultivation system

Fish disease prevention management fish

harvesting marketing income expenditure and

annual calendar

Pregnant women and lactating mother nutrition,

nutritious food recipes

Basic Nutrition and gender

Mola Carp poly culture Management

Water and sanitation

Homestead gardening and dike cropping

Nutrition and Hygiene

Safe Dry Fish Production and Waste

Management

Vegetable Production on Dike/Homestead

Partners (continued)

Angel Power tech Ltd. Banchte

Shekha – BS

Bangladesh Shrimp and Fish

Foundation – BSFF

Barind Media Limited

Bhola Monosex Telapia

Hatchery – BMTH

Bithy Scientific Hatchery and

Fisheries – BSHF

Chittagong Meridian Agro

Industries Ltd – CMAI

Coastal Association for Social

Transformation Trust - COAST

Trust

Community Development

Centre – CODEC

Fish Bangla

GreenDale Bangladesh Limited

Harvest Rich Agro Industries

Ltd.

Modhumoti Motso Hatchery –

MMH

Parmeeda Enterprise

Pranti Aquaculture Ltd.

Prottyashi

Shushilan

Spectra Hexa Feeds Ltd.

Suraya Noor Matshya Hatchery

– SNMH

United Agro Fisheries

Victor Feeds Ltd.

Innovations developed Digital MachHaat: Food Fish Buying and

Selling Service (Read more)

Rupali: Digital platform for input & aquaculture

advisory services to increase productivity &

efficiency (Read more)

References

Acknowledgements

This work was undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems (FISH) led by WorldFish. The program is supported by contributors to the CGIAR Trust Fund. Funding support for this work was provided by USAID in the framework of BANA.

Contact

In partnership

Program Manger: Jon Thiele <J.Thiele@cgiar.org>

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April 2020

Publications

Matthew Hamilton, Wagdy Mekkawy, John Benzie, Andrzej Kilian. (19/6/2019). Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) reveal sibship among founders of a Bangladeshi Rohu (Labeo rohita) breeding population. Frontiers in Genetics, Article 597(10). DSpace: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/3634 Matthew Hamilton, Wagdy Mekkawy, John Benzie (2019). Sibship assignment to the founders of a Bangladeshi Catla catla breeding population. Genetics Selection Evolution, 51: 17 . DSpace: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/3422

National Fish Health Management Strategy of Bangladesh (Read more)

Policy contribution

Outcome Impact Case Reports

Bangladeshi fish producers adopt improved pond management practices with an impressive share of women among them (Read more)