Papers by Md. Latiful Haque
Frontiers in sustainable food systems, Dec 19, 2023
The article explores eating-out practices among poor urban consumers in Bangladesh and their stra... more The article explores eating-out practices among poor urban consumers in Bangladesh and their strategies to cope with food safety concerns. Using social practice theory, we implemented interviews and a household survey to analyse the eating-out practices of adult slum dwellers in Dhaka, Bangladesh and their food safety coping strategies. We identified two different dominant eating out practices: 'snacking' and 'having a complete meal'. By reviewing the food safety concerns and coping strategies, we found that despite varying concerns, coping strategies are broadly similar across these two practices. The concerns include food presentation, unhygienic conditions, and unknown processing, while searching for information, using heuristic tools, and avoidance are the main coping strategies. These strategies are applied in both practices and do not exhibit significant differences in socioeconomic considerations and safety concerns. This indicates that the urban poor lack the resource and competencies to manage their concerns. The conclusion section presents a conceptual framework for future research on food safety coping strategies in urban eating-out practices. We also underline the need for context-specific policy interventions to ensure food safety in the urban food system of the global south. KEYWORDS coping strategies, eating out practices, food safety concerns, urban lifestyle, urban poor 1 Introduction Worldwide, consumers are concerned about their food safety. However, this is particularly the case in the global south, where food contamination is widespread and underreported, equitable access to safe food remains challenging, and urbanization is accelerating (Grace, 2015a,b). Despite these risks, global south urban food consumers are forced to rely largely on street vendors and other food outlets (Esohe, 2014; Reddy et al., 2020; FAO, 2022). International agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) have recognized the need for comprehensive measures to address these challenges and have developed the Framework for Action on Food Safety in the Southeast Asia Region (WHO, 2020). Despite such efforts, the urban poor have to compromise food safety for convenient and affordable meals at these outlets (
Following marginality approach developed at ZEF, Bonn we identified five marginal sub-districts i... more Following marginality approach developed at ZEF, Bonn we identified five marginal sub-districts in Bangladesh i.e. underperforming areas since in such areas yield gaps (potential minus actual yields) are high and productivity gains (of main staple crops) are likely to be achieved. Then we conducted qualitative and quantitative sample survey of 313 poor Smallholders and used livelihood assets and need assessment, Principal component analysis (PCA), logit regression model and cluster analysis to draw the conclusion. Results suggest that only cereal based growth productivity program could not improve food and livelihood security of the poor SHs in the study areas and thus we find that intensive crop system, hybrid seeds, water management technologies, non-crop farming, non-farm enterprise/business, etc. are the suggested potential technology innovations. However, there is very limited availability of extension services among the poor SHs in the study areas and thus despite being poor, the poor SHs have high willingness to pay for extension services, say, awareness and motivation building for increasing agricultural intensification, knowledge service for crop related agricultural production and agriculture related business. Regression results show that household head education, length of the permanent residency in the locality, land ownership, farm size, availability of seeds, having fair price, geographical locations are important determinants for willingness to pay for agricultural extension services. We finally suggest that creating an agricultural technology cum business promoter at the village level address the generalized barriers for the poor SHs for adopting those technology innovations, that is, low level of motivation for the poor SHs, lack of appropriate information, technical knowledge and extension/rural business services/networking, lack of credit and liquid money, etc.
Springer eBooks, 2016
Following the marginality approach developed at ZEF, we identified five underperforming sub-distr... more Following the marginality approach developed at ZEF, we identified five underperforming sub-districts in Bangladesh, where poverty and other socioeconomic dimensions of marginality are widespread, but agricultural potential is also high. Results from extensive quantitative and qualitative surveys suggest that development strategies in these areas should focus on three pathways: agricultural intensification, income diversification and agricultural diversification based on options available for the smallholders in the localities. Cereal-based technology under agricultural innovations could be part of the solution, but should be integrated into other income diversification and agricultural diversification strategies. Intensive crop systems, hybrid seeds, water management technologies, non-crop farming, non-farming enterprises are suggested as potential technology innovations for the study areas.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2018
Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development, 2016
Following marginality approach developed at ZEF, Bonn we identified five marginal sub-districts i... more Following marginality approach developed at ZEF, Bonn we identified five marginal sub-districts in Bangladesh i.e. underperforming areas since in such areas yield gaps (potential minus actual yields) are high and productivity gains (of main staple crops) are likely to be achieved. Then we conducted qualitative and quantitative sample survey of 313 poor Smallholders and used livelihood assets and need assessment, Principal component analysis (PCA), logit regression model and cluster analysis to draw the conclusion. Results suggest that only cereal based growth productivity program could not improve food and livelihood security of the poor SHs in the study areas and thus we find that intensive crop system, hybrid seeds, water management technologies, non-crop farming, non-farm enterprise/business, etc. are the suggested potential technology innovations. However, there is very limited availability of extension services among the poor SHs in the study areas and thus despite being poor, ...
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Papers by Md. Latiful Haque