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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 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.