As recommended by the Agricultural Commission of 1960, the East Pakistan Agricultural Development Corporation was established in 1963.

Bangladesh faces huge obstacles in its efforts to increase foodgrain production, raise rural incomes, and reduce food insecurity.

Two gruesome famines visited Bengal—in 1943 and 1974—on the heels of two great wars. The first descended amid the terrors of World War II, while the second followed in the wake of Bangladesh's brutal war of liberation.

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.

In this book economists, demographers, sociologists, and anthropologists collaborate in the study of how resources are allocated within households in developing countries and why it matters from a policy perspective.

Agricultural research and development has stimulated enormous increases in agricultural productivity in the twentieth century.

Developing countries are under pressure to produce more food for their growing populations, conserve natural resources, and reduce poverty. In the short term, however, these goals may compete with one another.

Solving the poverty problem in low-income countries requires rapid growth in output, income, and employment. An effective way to realize such growth is raising productivity in the large agriculture sector.

The Philippine growth experience may be described as a case of agriculture-led development that failed.

"The faster agriculture grows, the faster its relative size declines." That quotation from The Economics of Agricultural Development (Mellor 1966) still captures the essence of agricultural growth and its causal relationship to the structural tran

How agriculture grows, the pace at which it grows, and the impact it has on growth of the nonagricultural sector, on poverty and urbanization, and on the quality of the physical environment are highly complex issues.

Punjab has achieved remarkable growth since independence and is now the richest state of India. This growth and prosperity are primarily the result of Punjab's adoption of new technology in agriculture.

As a perusal of Colombia's economic history makes clear, agriculture has been central to the economy's generally satisfactory performance.

The most striking characteristic of Argentina's economic history in the twentieth century is the sharp decline in its growth performance.