Seasonal Hunger and Public Policies : Evidence from Northwest Bangladesh / Shahidur R. Khandker and Wahiduddin Mahmud.
Agricultural development through crop diversification, irrigation, high yielding crop varieties, and public investments in infrastructure has improved food security and its seasonal dimension worldwide in recent years. Consequently, the severity of seasonal hunger caused by agricultural crop cycles...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington D.C. :
World Bank,
2012.
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| Series: | Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Poverty.
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| Summary: | Agricultural development through crop diversification, irrigation, high yielding crop varieties, and public investments in infrastructure has improved food security and its seasonal dimension worldwide in recent years. Consequently, the severity of seasonal hunger caused by agricultural crop cycles has lessened substantially. Yet in agricultural pockets scattered throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, seasonal hunger persists, especially among the rural poor, owing primarily to idiosyncratic shocks caused by agricultural seasonality. More than four-fifths of the world's poor live in rural area. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 191 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780821395547 0821395548 082139553X 9780821395530 |