Spatial patterns of rural poverty and their relationship with welfare-influencing factors in Bangladesh

Kam, S. P.; Hossain, Mahabub; Bose, M; Villano, L.

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2005.10.001

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“…Furthermore, levels of poverty vary substantially across the country (BBS et al 2010;Kam et al 2005). The poorest areas are the Northwest, the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the Coastal Region of Bangladesh, where food security was found to be critically low in 2001 (Fig.…”

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“…Bangladesh is facing challenges in attaining and maintaining food security because of its large population, numbering 152 million at the last population census from 2011 (BBS 2011a). In addition, numerous drivers including poverty (Kam et al 2005), malnutrition (Bose and Dey 2007; Hossain et al 2005), frequent disasters (Mirza 2002;Ninno and Lundberg 2005), agricultural management practices (Ara et al 2016) and the effect of climate change (Karim et al 1996;Sarker et al 2012;Ruane et al 2013;Ara et al 2017) influence food security across the country (Habiba et al 2015a). …”

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A Review of Food Security and the Potentials to Develop Spatially Informed Food Policies in Bangladesh

Ara

Ostendorf

2017

Earth Syst Environ

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Background Food security globally depends primarily on three components: food availability, food access, and food utilization. Regional variations of these components may affect food security via spatial differences in natural, social or economic conditions and the interaction of these in a complex environmental system. Purpose It is important to understand the regional variation of food security, particularly where and under what natural and socio-economic circumstances people become vulnerable to low food security in a country. Methods This article provides an overview of food security in Bangladesh in terms of the three main components, identifies knowledge gaps in present food security research, reviews possible impacts of climate change on food security, and sourced a wide range of spatio-temporal data relevant for food security. Results The study highlights potentials and indicates different processes to develop spatially informed food policies in a country, particularly focuses on Bangladesh. This will contribute to improved food security by considering regional food security conditions, region-specific deficits, climate change, other future risks, and devises actions related to the respective components. Conclusion The study concludes that different processes can provide a foundation for policy development and these will advance research-policy linkage to improved food security.

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A Review of Food Security and the Potentials to Develop Spatially Informed Food Policies in Bangladesh

Ara

Ostendorf

2017

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“…Recent poverty mapping work in Bangladesh found that the pockets of high poverty coincided with ecologically poor areas, including the low-lying depression area in the north-east, the drought-prone area on higher land in the north-west, several subdistricts on the fringes of major rivers and several of the south-eastern subdistricts, including the Chittagong Hill Tract (Kam et al, 2005). Despite the importance of some agro-ecological conditions in explaining poverty in Bangladesh (especially the prevalence of highland, low or very low-lying land and heavy soils), socio-economic factors -especially education, but also including access to infrastructure (roads, irrigation and electricity) and landlessness are the strongest predictors of poverty (Kam et al, 2005).…”

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Sustainable poverty reduction in less-favoured areas: problems, options and strategies.

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Kuyvenhoven

2007

Sustainable Poverty Reduction in Less-Favoured Areas

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This chapter discusses: (i) the strategic interactions between natural resource management options; (ii) farm-household livelihood strategies for welfare and risk; and (iii) the surrounding market and institutional conditions for simultaneously enabling poverty reduction and sustainable land use. The chapter starts with a definition of the main characteristics of less-favoured areas (LFAs), followed by an analysis of the interactions between poverty and resource degradation in LFAs. Hereafter, the biophysical, micro- and macroeconomic dimensions of LFA development are discussed in order to provide insight in the complex interfaces between agroecological options, household drivers for change and effective incentives for resource use adjustment. The chapter concludes with some major implications for policy and research concerning strategies for sustainable poverty reduction in less-favoured areas.

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“…and 2) for a given type of asset building activity, in which regions are the 1 The resulting poverty estimates have also been used to investigate the causes of poverty (Kam et al 2005 or its consequences (Demombynes and Ozler 2005). 2 Tarozzi and Deaton (2009) and Elbers et al (2008) evaluate the validity of poverty mapping methods using census data that include income measures.…”

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“…Our focus on assets stems from the importance of a household's asset portfolio in determining the nature, extent and persistence of poverty and vulnerability (Moser 1998, Ellis and Freeman 2004, Adato et al 2006 The targeting maps tool introduced in this paper improves the information set guiding geographic targeting of in-kind transfers. Given substantial spatial heterogeneity in poverty incidence and its causes (Emwanu et al 2007, Kam et al 2005, there is little reason to believe that any single transfer form is best suited for all places in a country. Likewise, asset valuation is inevitably spatially heterogeneous, given the place-specificity of many complementary inputs -e.g., agro-ecological conditions that affect livestock value, economic activity that affects the returns to transportation infrastructure.…”

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Targeting Maps: An Asset-Based Approach to Geographic Targeting

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Proper targeting of policy interventions requires reasonable estimates of the benefits of the alternative options. To inform such decisions, we develop an integrated approach stemming from the small-area estimation literature that estimates the marginal returns to a range of assets across geographically defined subpopulations. We create a series of maps that can be overlaid with traditional poverty maps to identify strong candidate areas for intervention, though an efficiency/equity tradeoff sometimes exists. We apply our method using recent Ugandan data. Results are consistent with independent empirical findings and suggest asset specific transfer schemes would improve with a spatially targeted strategy.JEL classification: R12, O2, C15, I32

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Spatial patterns of rural poverty and their relationship with welfare-influencing factors in Bangladesh

Cited by 57 publications

References 6 publications

A Review of Food Security and the Potentials to Develop Spatially Informed Food Policies in Bangladesh

A Review of Food Security and the Potentials to Develop Spatially Informed Food Policies in Bangladesh

Sustainable poverty reduction in less-favoured areas: problems, options and strategies.

Targeting Maps: An Asset-Based Approach to Geographic Targeting

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