The myth of food self-sufficiency

The principal objective of agricultural production in Bangladesh is to ensure adequate food supply for the rising population. The memory of the catastrophic famine of 1974 that led to the death of tens of thousands of people due to starvation and the withholding of food shipments by the US government...

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Human rights implications

Whither the 21st Century youth, the very persons we teach yesterday's priorities to confront their future challenges? Faced with eroding coastlines and climate-change refugee prospects, on the one hand, and a Fourth Industrial Revolution context of artificial intelligence haunting routine service-sector and assembly-line job opportunities, on the other, where must...

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