Amjath Babu POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - CGIAR COVID-19 Hub: Supporting National Responses to a Global Pandemic Co-Organized by IFPRI and CGIAR COVID-19 Hub

1. CGIAR COVID-19 Hub: Bangladesh
Priorities and intervention plan
T.S Amjath Babu, Agricultural Economist-Modeling
and Targeting, (CIMMYT) : t.amjath@cgiar.org
Shaikh Mohammad Bokhtiar, Executive Chairman,
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC)
Dhaka| 12/01/2021

2. CGIAR research supply and COVID-19 priorities of Bangladesh Govt.
Increase crop, livestock and
fish production and
productivity to ensure
national food security
Production of diversified
crop, livestock and fish
production to meet the
nutritional demand
Building resilience to COVID-
19 and other emergencies in
the food production system
Employment generation
in the rural areas
Improved agriculture, fish
and livestock product e-
marketing system
Encouraging women
entrepreneurship and
participation in agriculture
IRRI—(TRB), (AGGRi)
CSISA-III (CIMMYT, IRRI, IFPRI)
CSISA – MEA (CIMMYT)
IDEA, BAA, CGIP , GIFT (WorldFish) SUCHANA, IDEA, SPAITS (WorldFish)
CSISA-III (CIMMYT, IRRI, IFPRI)
CIP-OFSP, IFPRI-ANGeL CIP-DDBIO, RECSA-CIMMYT
WorldFish-ECOFISH
IWMI projects, CSISA-III
CSISA-III (CIMMYT, IRRI, IFPRI), CSISA-MEA
SUCHANA, IDEA, BANA and SPAITS (WorldFish)
IRRI—AGGRi alliance and SIIL-Polder. IPFRI (ANGeL)
CSISA-III , CSISA-MEA
SUCHANA, IDEA, BAA and SPAITS
IRRI—AGGRi alliance and SIIL-
Polder.IFPRI- ANGeL
CIP-DDBIO
BAA and IDEA (WorldFish)

3. COVID-Hub support for resilience and recovery in Bangladesh
Digital Disease
monitor and
hotspot locator
Nutrient secure
homestead app
Food system monitoring dashboard
Crop- weather
issue monitor
Fish- weather
issue monitor
Farmgate price
monitor
Planting and
harvesting
and monitor
Poverty
monitor
Flood monitor
Digital markets
for women
Cold-storage
Hubs for
agricultural
storage
Agricultural
machinery and
service provision-
Returned migrants
Biofortified
crops for
nutritional
security
Additional interventions conditional to funding availability
DAE
DAE
DoM
DAE
DoF
MoDM
DAE and DoF
DoM