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Rice Research, Technological Progress, and Impacts on the Poor

The case study builds on an ongoing large-scale quantitative research project undertaken by BIDS/IRRI since 1987 originally in 64 unions from 57 districts of Bangladesh. It adds a qualitative research component to examine the impact of modern rice varieties on livelihoods in a structured sample of eight of these villages across a range of favorable and unfavorable contexts.