What is Bangladesh's potential for self-sufficiency in rice production? There have been both optimistic and pessimistic answers to that question.

Seed-fertilizer technology has had a dramatic influence on cereal production in many developing economies, including Bangladesh.

Despite recent economic growth, pervasive poverty and undemutrition persist in Bangladesh. According to the latest estimates, about half the population cannot afford an adequate diet (WGTFI 1994; Sen 1992; Ravallion and Sen 1996).

This chapter reviews the case for price stabilization and the continued maintenance of large public foodgrain stocks in Bangladesh.

The transformation in Bangladesh from traditional agriculture to a dynamic and progressively commercial agrarian society is a fascinating process that should interest many developing countries.

This book describes how Bangladesh transformed its food markets and food policies to free the country from the constant threat of famine.

The conditions that produce famine--extreme poverty, armed conflict, economic and political turmoil, and climate shocks--are now most prevalent in Africa.

The prevalent and generally accepted image of famine in Ethiopia has been one of hopeless inevitability with food shortage and starvation being an unavoidable consequence of environmental hardship combined with economic and political mismanagement