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A dynamic and well-structured service system is needed for solving the food safety and food security problems in Bangladesh. Moreover, food adulteration has maximized the severity of these problems. Agricultural products are mostly adulterated, and there is a significant scarcity of these products in urban markets. Women farmers in the agricultural sector can deliver better services to consumers if opportunities can be created for them within the specialized service system. This paper proposes an innovative service model based on urban schools. The major focus of this service system is not only creation of opportunities for women farmers to become empowered but also to reduce food safety and adulteration issues and provide nutritional benefit to children in urban areas of Bangladesh.
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Haque, I.T., Kohda, Y. (2017). Service Innovation for Reducing Food Adulteration Problem in Bangladesh. In: Sawatani, Y., Spohrer, J., Kwan, S., Takenaka, T. (eds) Serviceology for Smart Service System. ICServ 2015. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56074-6_10
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