Although Bangladesh has achieved progress in poverty reduction still widespread poverty and hunger at national and regional level remains. There are also significant variations in poverty incidence between rural and urban Bangladesh. Food and nutrition security in Bangladesh is characterized by considerable regional variations within Bangladesh. Factors such as natural disasters, cyclones, tornados, floods and droughts, river erosion; associated with shrinkage of agricultural land due to non-agricultural use is increasingly having negative impact on food production and livelihoods of the millions of people those depended directly and/or indirectly (over 60% of the labour force in Bangladesh is engaged in agriculture sector).

Poverty can be a cause and an outcome of food insecurity. Households that are poor lack the means to acquire sufficient nutritious food and therefore are likely to be food insecure. People who are in a food insecure position may have to sell their productive assets in order to meet their immediate nutritional needs. This undermines their longer-term income potential leading them to becoming poorer. TMSS program sector actively looks into these aspects to ensure food security and livelihoods in a sustainable way. TMSS is implementing a wide range of programs to assist program participation and the programs include quality seed production and distribution marketing, fisheries, agriculture, efficient irrigation system, homestead gardening and Land Development. In addition, TMSS carries out VGD program, a social safety-net program of Government of Bangladesh in order to ensure access to the poorest in the program. During FY 2019-2020, we have reached 200256 people through our agriculture and food related activities.