Land rights of the indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, by RAJKUMARI CHANDRA ROY (Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Document No. 99, 2000, pp. 231)
✍ Scribed by Kirsten Westergaard
- Book ID
- 102350840
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 32 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0954-1748
- DOI
- 10.1002/jid.839
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✦ Synopsis
that runoff agriculture would also suffer from similar problems of ownership, risk, sharing of contributions, costs and outcomes, and related social con¯icts. Nonetheless, the word promise describes the book also in another way. With some acknowledgement of the pitfalls of runoff agriculture, the book also paints a more realistic and slightly less certain picture of the potential and bene®ts that this sector has to hold. With this balance in mind, there are sections of the book that might probably have been better worded as researchable issues rather than as self-evident truths. Nonetheless, given the challenges facing humanity in the next 25 years, and the audience this book is intended for, this is a timely and important contribution to the debate on water management, food production and food security at local, national and international levels.
In summary, this is a useful book for ®rst and second year undergraduates and interdisciplinary Masters students studying natural resources management and agriculture. It is also useful as a general guide for ®eld workers who might be scoping out (rather than planning in detail) options for rainfall-augmented crop production. The book contains good diagrams, a clear explanation of the various nuances of the main topics and a wide reference list for further reading. It constitutes an updated and useful reader, providing a good global update on the subject.