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 areas and depend on agriculture for
livelihoods. Because of seasonal income shocks, the poor who are
generally poor are likely to be even poorer during a particular
agricultural season, while those who are not poor year-round may
also be so during that season. Also, seasonal hunger may lead to
endemic poverty if its adverse effects on income and consumption
are irreversible. Policies aimed at reducing overall poverty often
disregard its seasonal dimension, because standard poverty
statistics do not consider seasonal hunger in the official data
collection and analysis, there is no direct way to determine how
many of the "bottom billion," as economist Paul Collier refers to
the world's poorest people, suffer from seasonal hunger. Even
worse, regions prone to severe seasonal hunger are unlikely to
attract the public investments required to raise the local
economy's resilience through income diversification and thus break
the seasonal-poverty cycle. The book provides an exhaustive inquiry
of Bangladesh's seasonal hunger with special reference to the North
West region. The seasonality of poverty and food deprivation is a
common feature of rural livelihood but it is more marked in the
north-west region of Bangladesh. The book also presents an
evaluation of several policy interventions launched recently in
mitigating seasonality, which provide a test case of what works and
what does not in combating seasonal hunger. The major findings of
the book are the following: (a) Policies to improve food security
should explicitly take into account the seasonal dimension of food
deprivation. (b) Gains from initiatives to combat seasonal hunger
should be monitored and consolidated to ensure sustainable impacts.
(c) Policies should also focus on areas that, owing to
environmental degradation and climate change, are increasingly
vulnerable to seasonal hunger and food insecurity in
general.|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. The book provides an exhaustive
inquiry of Bangladesh's seasonal hunger with special reference to
the northwest region, where it is more pronounced. It also presents
an evaluation of several policy interventions launched recently in
mitigating seasonality, which provide a test case of what works and
what does not in combating seasonal hunger. The major findings of
the book are: (a) Policies to improve food security should
explicitly take into account the seasonal dimension of food
deprivation. (b) Gains from initiatives to combat seasonal hunger
should be monitored and consolidated to ensure sustainable impacts,
and (c) Policies should also focus on areas that, owing to
environmental degradation and climate change, are increasingly
vulnerable to seasonal hunger and food insecurity in general.
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