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

Further reading on Bangladesh

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