Postharvest Losses, Technology, And Employment-The Case Of Rice In Bangladesh

List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE Outline of the Study -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Chapter Outline -- CHAPTER TWO The Postharvest System and World Hunger: The Debate on Neglect and the Neglects of the Debate -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Debate on Neglect -- 2.3 The Evidence on Food Losses -- 2.4 Attitude-Forming Influences on the Debate on Losses -- 2.5 The Neglects of the Debate -- 2.6 The Cost and Benefits of Loss- Reducing Technical Change -- Notes -- CHAPTER THREE Rice in Bangladesh: The Farm-Level Postharvest System -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 What Are We Trying to Measure? -- 3.3 Cropping Patterns and Postharvest Operations -- 3.4 Postharvest Technical Change and Planned Rural Development: An Overview -- 3.5 A Review of the Farm-Level Postharvest Literature -- 3.6 Product, Capital and Labour Use -- Notes -- CHAPTER FOUR Bangladesh Farm-Level Food Losses: Evidence Against the High Loss Lobby -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Bangladesh Postharvest Project: Objectives and Areas of Study -- 4.3 Grouping Operations by Loss Assessment Method: Different Causes Require Different Methods -- 4.4 Crop Drying as a Special Case? -- 4.5 The Problems of Developing Accurate Applied Methods -- 4.6 Estimated Food Losses and Economic Implications -- 4.7 Seasons, Regions, Farm Size and Varieties -- 4.8 Wet Season Losses -- 4.9 The Mycotoxin Problem -- 4.10 Conclusions and Implications for Future Research -- 4.11 Supporting Evidence from Other Studies -- Notes -- Appendix 4.1. Rainfall, Temperature and Relative Humidity (RH) Records in the Two Project Field Areas 1979-80 -- Appendix 4.2. Examples of Field Survey Instructions and Forms -- Appendix 4.3. Percentage Size Distribution of Land Owned (Acres) -- CHAPTER FIVE Technical Change I: Pedal Threshing -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Pedal Threshers: Manufacture, Distribution and Use -- 5.3 Pedal Threshers Cause Higher Food Losses -- 5.4 Returns to Pedal Thresher Ownership -- 5.5 Returns to Farms Hiring Pedal Threshers -- 5.6 Returns to Wage Labour -- 5.7 Social Costs and Benefits -- 5.8 Some Conclusions: Pedal Threshers, the Epitome of Appropriateness? -- Notes -- Appendix 5.1. Detailed Estimate of Pedal Thresher Costs 200 -- Appendix 5.2. Distributional Issues and Choice or Threshing Technique -- CHAPTER SIX Technical Change II: Rice Milling -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Traditional Processing: Description, Distribution and Types of Labour Used -- 6.3 Rice Mills: Description,Distribution and Types ofLabour Used -- 6.4 Quantity and Quality of Milled Rice Outturn - a Comparison -- 6.5 The Farm-Level Decision Criteria for Choice of Milling Technique -- 6.6 The Private Profitability of OWning Huller Mills -- 6.7 Social Benefit Cost Analysis: An Outline of the Approach -- 6.8 A Comparison at Market Prices -- 6.9 A Comparison at Efficiency Prices -- 6.10 A Comparison at Social Prices -- 6.11 Sensitivity Analysis  -- Notes -- Appendix 6.1. Derivation of Distributional Weights -- Appendix Notes -- CHAPTER SEVEN Policy Implications: Programmes for Rural Women -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Gender Division of Labour -- 7.3 Peasant Differentiation and Its Effect on Female Work -- 7.4 Implications for Women`s Programmes -- List of Acronyms -- Glossary of Local Terms -- References -- Index.