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Did you know Bangladesh produces enough vegetables to be a major exporter but sends less than 0.3% abroad? 🌿

This World Food Safety Day, we are breaking down why Bangladeshi vegetables fail export standards long before they board a flight, and what fixing it actually looks like.

From pesticide overuse to broken cold chains, the problem is systemic. But so are the solutions.

🔗 Read our latest knowledge piece on Innovision website: https://innovision-bd.com/blog-news/food-safety-starts-at-the-farm-lessons-from-bangladeshs-vegetable-export-crisis

𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝗜𝗟𝗢) 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘅'𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗿!

Cox's Bazar is home to one of the world's largest refugee settlements, placing enormous pressure on host communities and local resources. Farming households in the region continue to face rising input costs, limited market access, and growing climate risks, making sustainable livelihoods increasingly difficult to secure.

Building on our previous collaboration with the আন্তর্জাতিক শ্রম সংস্থা - International Labour Organization (ILO) in the region, Innovision will now work to strengthen agricultural market systems across five priority value chains: poultry, fish, maize, and commercial and gourd vegetables, creating real and lasting economic opportunities for host communities.

Innovision will be working to:
• Connect farmers to better inputs, markets, and digital tools
• Establish women and youth-led aggregation hubs to reduce post-harvest losses
• Introduce innovative microfinance solutions to improve access to credit
• Ensure the most vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities and marginalized youth, are included through dedicated livelihood schemes

We are proud to bring our expertise and on-the-ground presence in Cox's Bazar to help farming communities build stronger, more resilient futures.

Together, we can create lasting agricultural opportunities that leave no one behind.

In J&J Fireside | Episode 4, macroeconomist Jyoti Rahman and Md. Rubaiyath Sarwar, Managing Director of Innovision Consulting, examine the debt overhang quietly constraining governments across the Global South, a conversation that feels just as urgent today as when it was first recorded.

Originally featured on Counterpoint, this episode was set against the backdrop of Bangladesh's February elections, with the hosts dialling in from Cairo and Dhaka to unpack what fiscal reality looks like when the books are finally opened.

From the ground and macro lens, they unpack:
• Why debt-to-GDP ratios can be misleading when the revenue base is weak
• How Egypt's infrastructure borrowing pushed interest payments past 70% of government revenue, and what that signals for Bangladesh
• The hidden liabilities, contingent debts, and undisclosed fiscal risks inherited from the previous regime
• Why fiscal adjustment almost always hits low-income and middle-class households hardest

At the center of the discussion is a core question: can any government govern credibly without first confronting what is inside the fiscal closet?

For Bangladesh, the conversation points to a priority that has not changed: transparency before ambition, and restraint over promise, in a moment where every paisa of discretionary spending carries real consequence.

As the debt crisis casts a longer shadow over the Global South, what matters more right now: fiscal honesty or political confidence?

Watch the episode: J&J Fireside | Episode 4: https://innovision-bd.com/blog-news/economic-policy-in-the-shadow-of-the-debt-crisis-j-j-fireside---episode-4