ABSTRACT
This chapter examines all three components necessary for food availability—domestic production, international trade and food aid in order to investigate the role of the Bangladesh state in promoting food availability. It examines the role of the Bangladesh state in promoting food availability, with the central intention of investigating the process of policymaking and its implementation mechanisms. The chapter analyses the role of the state in mitigating the food availability crisis via trade during a time of relative vulnerability as a result of temporary production shortfalls. During the years of food grain crisis, government of Bangladesh frustratingly failed to ensure food availability and, in particular, the regime failed to import food grains in timely manner. Scientific study is important for effective import of food grains in order to ensure food availability at the national level. It is particularly important in a country like Bangladesh where higher food prices are necessary to induce increased local food production and to support poor farmers.
