Browsing by Subject "Food"
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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security: Evidence from Uganda
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-04-23)We evaluate causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on technology adoption and food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary ... -
J & S Food and Beverage Limited
(BRAC University, 2018-04-05)The aim of my internship report is to basically know how a auto rice mill works in Bangladesh. An orgnizational study was undergone at J & S Food and Beverage Ltd. as a part of the academic programme for a period of three ... -
Mixing methods, tasting fingers: notes on an ethnographic experiment
(© 2011 School of Social and Political Sciences, 2011)This article reports on an ethnographic experiment. Four finger eating experts and three novices sat down for a hot meal and ate with their hands. Drawing on the technique of playing with the familiar and the strange, our ... -
A review on the prevalence and Detection of Bacterial contamination in Common Food and Associated Health Risk
(Brac University, 2021-10)Foodborne diseases are becoming a serious public health problem throughout the world, with 48 million illnesses and 3,000 fatalities projected in the United States each year. Over 1.7 billion cases of diarrheal disease-related ... -
Targeting the Poorest in Microfinance: Poverty outreach of BDP ultra poor program
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division and Aga Khan Foundation Canada, 2006-08)Despite the general consensus that microfinance does not reach the poorest; recent evidence suggests that nearly 15% of microfinance clients in Bangladesh are among the poorest. It is from the realization that even within ...
