Bangladesh’s winter harvest brings peak vegetable supply — and peak exposure to industrial heavy metals — as dry-season conditions concentrate contamination in soil and food ...

Bangladesh's pursuit of a resilient and food-secure future is driven by its people—the farmers, women, youth, and local authorities who strive each day to nourish their families and strengthen their ...

Muhammad Rayhan Ahmed is JURIST’s Bangladesh correspondent and a law student at the University of Dhaka. This is his inaugural report. “No one believed. They listened at his heart. Little—less—nothing ...

Well before the sun rises in Chapra, a small village in the northwest of Bangladesh, Mohammad Abdur Rouf is on his feet. He travels six miles to a neighboring village, where he joins hundreds of other ...

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has highlighted food safety-related work in several countries. A food control system assessment has been started in Pakistan. The initiative ...

Excessive use of chemical fertilizers is causing soil health degradation in Bangladesh, putting the country’s food security at risk. The degradation of soil health has been attributed to higher crop ...

Eight people have died in Bangladesh after consuming contaminated raw date palm sap. From early January to mid-February, 11 cases including eight deaths from the Nipah virus have been reported across ...

Dhaka, June 2 -- Though excessive salt consumption, particularly from processed packaged foods (PPFs), is contributing to an alarming rise in hypertension and cardiovascular diseases across Bangladesh ...

As the world observes World Food Day today under the evocative theme, "Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future," its resonance echoes profoundly in Bangladesh. While the nation has ...

Mohammad Feisal Rahman's work for this article was funded by the GCRF Living Deltas Hub NE/S008926/1. This article was also based on data collected from a 2019 research project funded by the Centre ...