Needless Hunger Voices from a Bangladesh Village

Name: Needless Hunger Voices from a Bangladesh Village
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ISBN: 9780935028034

ISBN-10: 093502803X

ISBN-13: 9780935028034

Edition: 2nd 1982 (Revised)

Authors: Betsy Hartmann, James K. Boyce, Frances M. Lappe, Joseph Collins

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Why is a country with some of the world's most fertile land also the home of so many hungry people? Betsy Hartmann and James Boyce, both Bengali-speaking anthropologists, spent two years in Bangladesh investigating the paradox of hunger in a "basketcase" country that actually produces enough grain for its people. Needless Hunger follows the history and structure of Bangladesh society, and also draws us into the daily lives of the people of Katni, the village where the authors lived. "There is no natural barrier to filling the basic human needs of Bangladesh's people," they conclude. "But there is the man-made barrier of a social order benefiting the few at the expense of the many." They…

Book details

List price: $8.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Institute for Food & Development Policy/Food First Books
Publication date: 6/1/1979
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English



Hunger in a Fertile Land



The Paradox



Riches to Rags


The Making of Hunger



Who Owns the Land?


Shaha Paikur: Landlord, Merchant and Moneylender



Siphoning the Surplus


The Trials of a Poor Peasant Family



The Inefficiency of Inequality


The Death of a Landless Laborer



What Is the Alternative?


Us and Them



Foreign Aid: A Helping Hand?


Family Planning Comes to Bangladesh



What Can We Do?


Notes


Further Reading on Bangladesh


Institute Publications