Courtesy Photo | USAID, Historical Archive | 07.13.2015
The 1974 floods in Bangladesh intensified that country's food shortages. The government of Bangladesh, in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development, adopted a Food for Work program to stimulate food production, feed hungry people and provide jobs. By reclaiming land, rehabilitating canals to permit irrigation of dry land and expanding and improving flood control, the......
