Category: Food Security
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The Basic Problems of Bangladesh
The Times Editorial (June 19, 1980) Bangladesh was born but of Indian intervention and Pakistani inability to keep together two parts of a country that was divided by everything but the religion that was deemed to have. brought the country into being. The severance of East Pakistan and its emergence as Bangladesh was celebrated as…
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President leads from the front
The Guardian (December 31, 1979) PRESIDENT ZIA faces the task of introducing reforms of land tenure, education, and law in a country that has been busy over the last eighteen months restoring democracy. Over a little canal-digging, he tells Peter Niesewand: “This is our own revolution.” THE WEATHER pattern seemed to be changing in Bangladesh,…
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Man in Motion: Slain Leader Traversed Nation Preaching Progress, Hard Work
Stuart Auerbach, The Washington Post (May 31, 1981) The Slain president of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman, liked to move out among his people- As many as 20 days a month he headed by helicopter from Dacca to some remote village. Usually, one village wasn’t enough for the short, trim Zia. Dressed in a bush shirt, he…
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Ziaur Rahman: The man who gave us our identity
When President Ziaur Rahman was killed, he was only 45. But within this short life span he contributed enormously to Bangladesh. His catalytic role in initiating the mass revolt among Bengali members of the armed-forces after the brutal military crackdown of 25th March 1971, and his contribution as a military leader of Bangladesh’s war of…
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Economic Hope For Bangladesh
Kevin Rafferty, New York Times (October 10, 1976) Which Asian country last year achieved double‐digit economic growth? It was certainly not Japan, which is still staggering out of recession and was thankful to turn in a positive 2 percent growth after a 1.2 percent shrinkage in 1974. Nor was it Singapore or Malaysia or any…
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Bangladesh raises food output halving its food import over five years
James P Sterba, New York Times (26 February 1979) Despite marginal success in controlling its population growth, Bangladesh has cut its foreign food‐aid requirements in half during the last five years, and Govern. meat leaders are talking optimistically about achieving self‐sufficiency in food by 1985. Most experts on foreign aid have been sceptical about whether…
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