Promoting national and household food security in Bangladesh: Evolving roles of public stocks, cereal distribution and private trade

Large-scale government interventions in cereal markets supported by public stocks have been a central part of food in the Indian sub-content since the days of British colonial India. Following the Great Bengal Famine of 1943, during which an estimated three million people died of hungerrelated cause...

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Main Author: Dorosh, Paul A.
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: University Press Limited 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142107
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description Large-scale government interventions in cereal markets supported by public stocks have been a central part of food in the Indian sub-content since the days of British colonial India. Following the Great Bengal Famine of 1943, during which an estimated three million people died of hungerrelated causes, the colonial government instituted a system of government sales and distribution of cereals designed to help ensure minimum food consumption for poor households (Sen 1982). Public distribution systems continued in both India and Pakistan following independence in 1947. The famine conditions in 1972-74 that followed the liberation war and Bangladesh’s independence in December 1971 strongly reinforced the perceived need for major public interventions to ensure food security (see Ahmed, Haggblade, and Chowdhury 2000).
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spelling CGSpace1421072025-11-06T04:11:44Z Promoting national and household food security in Bangladesh: Evolving roles of public stocks, cereal distribution and private trade Dorosh, Paul A. cereals households food stocks social protection trade private trade food security Large-scale government interventions in cereal markets supported by public stocks have been a central part of food in the Indian sub-content since the days of British colonial India. Following the Great Bengal Famine of 1943, during which an estimated three million people died of hungerrelated causes, the colonial government instituted a system of government sales and distribution of cereals designed to help ensure minimum food consumption for poor households (Sen 1982). Public distribution systems continued in both India and Pakistan following independence in 1947. The famine conditions in 1972-74 that followed the liberation war and Bangladesh’s independence in December 1971 strongly reinforced the perceived need for major public interventions to ensure food security (see Ahmed, Haggblade, and Chowdhury 2000). 2021-10-27 2024-05-22T12:09:58Z 2024-05-22T12:09:58Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142107 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9789845063715 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134737 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134541 Open Access application/pdf University Press Limited Dorosh, Paul A. 2021. Promoting national and household food security in Bangladesh: Evolving roles of public stocks, cereal distribution and private trade. In Securing Food for All in Bangladesh, eds. Akhter Ahmed, Nurul Islam, and Mustafa K. Mujeri. Part Three: Food Security and Output Market, Chapter 8, Pp. 277-296. Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Limited. https://doi.org/10.2499/9789845063715_08
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Promoting national and household food security in Bangladesh: Evolving roles of public stocks, cereal distribution and private trade
title Promoting national and household food security in Bangladesh: Evolving roles of public stocks, cereal distribution and private trade
title_full Promoting national and household food security in Bangladesh: Evolving roles of public stocks, cereal distribution and private trade
title_fullStr Promoting national and household food security in Bangladesh: Evolving roles of public stocks, cereal distribution and private trade
title_full_unstemmed Promoting national and household food security in Bangladesh: Evolving roles of public stocks, cereal distribution and private trade
title_short Promoting national and household food security in Bangladesh: Evolving roles of public stocks, cereal distribution and private trade
title_sort promoting national and household food security in bangladesh evolving roles of public stocks cereal distribution and private trade
topic cereals
households
food stocks
social protection
trade
private trade
food security
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