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Is aquaculture pro-poor? Empirical evidence of impacts on fish consumption in Bangladesh

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Title Is aquaculture pro-poor? Empirical evidence of impacts on fish consumption in Bangladesh
 
Creator Toufique, K.A.
Belton, Benjamin
 
Subject aquaculture
bangladesh
 
Description Aquaculture is widely held to contribute to poverty reduction and food security in the Global South, but robust evidence is limited. Using nationally representative data from Bangladesh, this study analyses changes in fish consumption from 2000 to 2010. Rapid expansion of commercial aquaculture pegged down fish prices, resulting in increased fish consumption by extreme poor and moderate poor consumers and those in rural areas. These outcomes are closely linked to the pro-poor nature of national economic growth during this period. These findings contribute to a broadening of the debate on whether the growth of aquaculture in Bangladesh has been pro-poor.
 
Date 2014-12
2014-08-13T11:19:57Z
2014-08-13T11:19:57Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Toufique, K.A. and Belton, B. 2014. Is aquaculture pro-poor? Empirical evidence of impacts on fish consumption in Bangladesh. World Development 64:609–620.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/41925
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.06.035
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 609-620
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source World Development