{"id":244744,"date":"2026-10-01T05:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/more-than-frogs-umbrellas-how-mushrooms-are-improving-food-security-in-bangladesh"},"modified":"2026-10-01T05:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:34:15","slug":"more-than-frogs-umbrellas-how-mushrooms-are-improving-food-security-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/more-than-frogs-umbrellas-how-mushrooms-are-improving-food-security-in-bangladesh","title":{"rendered":"More than \u2018frog\u2019s umbrellas\u2019: how mushrooms are improving food security in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/more-than-frogs-umbrellas-how-mushrooms-are-improving-food-security-in-bangladesh.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/sites\/default\/files\/More%20than%20%E2%80%98frog%E2%80%99s%20umbrellas%E2%80%99%3A%20how%20mushrooms%20are%20improving%20food%20security%20in%20Bangladesh_0.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople here used to hate it,\u201d says Layzu Akter, describing the oyster mushrooms from which she now generates a good income. \u201cLocally, they would call these mushrooms \u2018frogs\u2019 umbrellas.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A closer look at the delicate mushrooms, sprouting out of an odd-looking package, makes it clearer why someone would make that comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Yet today, the pearly-white fungus, a delicacy in many places, is also increasingly popular in Akter\u2019s community in northeastern Bangladesh\u2019s Kurigram District \u2013 thanks to a broader World Food Programme (WFP) initiative that has transformed the livelihoods of food-insecure families like Akter\u2019s, who once struggled to make ends meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPeople here used to hate it,\u201d says Layzu Akter, describing the oyster mushrooms from which she now generates a good income. \u201cLocally, they would call these mushrooms \u2018frogs\u2019 umbrellas.\u2019\u201d A closer look at the delicate mushrooms, sprouting out of an odd-looking package, makes it clearer why someone would make that comparison. Yet today, the pearly-white [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}