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 <[email protected]>
1Annual Progress Report, October 2018 — September 2019, page 24:
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/4035 3Annual Progress Report, October 2018 — September 2019, page 25:
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/4035 4Annual Progress Report, October 2018 — September 2019, page 24:
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/4035
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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)
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