Needless Hunger - Voices from a Bangladesh Village (FF, 1982, 74 p.): (introduction...)

Needless Hunger - Voices from a Bangladesh Village (FF, 1982, 74 p.)

(introduction...)

Hunger in a fertile land

1. The paradox

2. Riches to rags

The making of hunger

3. Who owns the land

(introduction...)

Shaha Paikur: landlord, merchant and moneylender

4. Siphoning the surplus

(introduction...)

The trials of a poor peasant family

5. The inefficiency of inequalily

(introduction...)

The death of a landless laborer

6. What is the alternative?

Us and them

7. Foreign helping hand ?

(introduction...)

Family planning comes to Bangladesh

8. What can we do?

Notes

(introduction...)

Betsy Hartmann
James K. Boyce

IFDP
INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY
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Hartmann, Betsy.

Needless hunger: voices from a Bangladesh village/Betsy Hartmann, James K. Boyce-San Francisco, Calif.: Institute for Food and Development Policy. c1979.

Bibliography: P. 66-68

1. Food supply - Bangladesh. 2. Hunger. 3. Agriculture - Bangladesh. 4. Bangladesh-Rural conditions. 1. Boyce, James K., joint author. II. Institute for Food and Development Policy, San Francisco. III. Title.

HD9016.B352H37

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ISBN: 0-935028-03-X

Second printing, revised: January 1982; Third printing, 1987

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Cover photo by Hartmann/Boyce. Designed by Barbara Garza

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Formerly East Pakistan, Bangladesh was founded in 1971 following the Bengali revolt against Pakistan. Officially known as Gana Prajatantri Bangladesh (People's Republic of Bangladesh) and lying in the delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, Bangladesh is 55,126 square miles (142,776 square kilometers) in area, approximately the size of Wisconsin. Bangladesh is the fourth largest agricultural society in the world: 90 percent of its 83 million people are rural and 80 percent depend directly upon agriculture as a livelihood. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, "Bangladesh is possibly the richest country in the world as far as inland fishery resources are concerned."