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Hunger: Theory, Perspectives and Reality

To
My Mother
for all her love and care

Professor Amitava Mukherjee Ph.D. was educated at Ranchi University, Ranchi; Rice University, Houston and at University of South Florida, Tampa. He researched at Rice University, Houston; Stanford University, Stanford; London School of Economics, London and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London. Dr. Mukherjee is currently the Executive Director of Development Tracks in Research Training and Consultancy, a knowledge enterprise in New Delhi and is consultant to various UN agencies and international organisations in and outside India. He has written and lectured extensively on issues of hunger, food security and poverty almost worldwide, including at the UN. He has over two dozen books and numerous papers to his credit. His contributions to micro-level planning, participating development, food security and hunger are internationally recognized.

Hunger: Theory, Perspectives and Reality

Assessment Through Participatory Methods

Amitava Mukherjee
Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, India

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge
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Amitava Mukherjee 2004

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ISBN 13: 978-0-815-38956-9 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-1-351-15620-2 (ebk)

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• Terms Meaning

• Aganwadi A government child welfare day-care centre where children up to the age of 5 receive free food and a health check up

• Baithak Living room

• Bajra A coarse cereal

• Banga Disease afflicting buffaloes. It affects the feet which get swollen

• Baroo A type of weed which looks similar to jowar and is found mostly in jowar fields

• Barsam Fodder sown in winter

• Basti Ward or colony in a village organised mainly on the basis of caste/religion

• Bathua A weed

• Bigha Measure of Land: 5 Bigha = 1 acre

• Biswa Measure of Land: 5 Biswa = 1 acre

• Burela Another name for Dhola

• Chepa Tiny white insects suck juice out of leaves in cabbage, bajra, mustard, sugarcane leaves. It gives a sticky texture

• Chhedak Any caterpillar that bores holes. It is also called Dhola/Burela

• Chitli A worm that eats vegetable roots

• Chula Oven or stove made out of mud which uses wood, animal dung, etc. as fuel

• Congress Grass A weed having small white flowers. Also called Parthenium

• Dhencha Medium sized fodder plants sown in summer

• Dhola Caterpillars that bore holes

• Fatinga Any pest which is a grasshopper

• Galaghotu A disease found in buffaloes. It chokes buffaloes to death

• Gander A general term for caterpillars

• Gram Samiti A village Co-operative Society

• Gram Sewak An appointee of the Block Development Office for supervising development work in the village. He/she looks after 3 villages

• Gurchawa A disease which results in wilting and crippling of leaves

• Hara Kira Small green caterpillar

• Harwawa A disease which turns leaves yellow

• Jhansi A cluster of small caterpillars (pest)

• Jhulsa A disease resulting in wilting and blackening of leaves

• Jowar An inferior cereal used also as fodder now

• Kanduwa A disease which affects the ear-rings of wheat turning them black

• Kasba A village which is the centre of rural growth having a population of 7000 or more

• Kateli A medium sized tree-weed having thorns

• Katui A pest which cuts down paddy ear-rings

• Kirona Any pest which is a caterpillar

• Koria Crippling of leaves and plants like a leper. The fruits of the affected plants look deformed

• Lalrii Red coloured small sized pest which can fly. It eats leaves of leafy vegetables

• Machchi/Makhi House-fly

• Mandi Wholesale market

• Morya or Gurchawa A disease which wilts and cripples leaves especially of chillies and tomatoes

• Muhalla Ward/Colony

• Najla Ailment: running nose, headache and nose burning

• Nakshatra A constellation

• Nilagai Blue Bull

• Pankhi Any pest that can fly

• Pradhan/Sarpanch Village Head, usually elected to the village level unit of governance

• Rani Jai A weed similar in looks to wheat and whose seeds (Ghan Jai) are identical to wheat grains, though slightly black in colour

• Safed Moondi A weed having small seeds (coriander type), mainly found in wheat fields

• Sambar A kind of deer

• Sati Small sized weeds which mainly grow in Bajra fields

• Soondi Small sized caterpillar found in paddy leaves. It sucks the sap

• Telchatta Small sized pest which can fly. It sucks juice out of mustard pods and cauliflower

• Tidda A current variant of locust which is small in size

• Tiddi Large sized locust (the earlier variant)

• Tikuli A beetle that sucks juice from leaves of vegetables mostly found in summers

• Titri A small white moth which sucks milk from paddy ear-rings

• Vernacular Month Corresponding period in Roman Calendar

• Baisakh Mid-April to Mid-May

• Jeth Mid-May to Mid-June

• Asard Mid-June to Mid-July

• Sawan Mid-July to Mid-August

• Bhado Mid-August to Mid-September

• Kuar* Mid-September to Mid-October

• Kartick Mid-October to Mid-November

• Aghan Mid-November to Mid-December

• Poos Mid-December to Mid-January

• Magh Mid-January to Mid-February

• Fagun Mid-February to Mid-March

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