'History of human civilization initiated with the struggle against hunger, it flourishes with the fight against poverty and turns oblivious with absence of voices against these two bio-social mortality. If hunger is a pain, poverty is an agony, then, keeping silent against these carcinoma of civilization is no doubt a crime. Is it that poor people are put to an insurmountable silence by the ruthless hegemonies of political economy, or, they are silent, thats why they remain poor. Silence has been the lethal enzyme in transforming poverty into hunger, and, offers to a socio-chemical bond, poverty-hunger-silence; the bond that remains non-breakable as on date. Economists lament for poverty, nutritionists regret hunger, but the issues of silence and its cohesion to both hunger and poverty has seldom been scholastically delved into or dealt with. We can hope, a desperation of wishful thinking as it may be, shall drench the researchers who think and feel to explore a missing link between hunger and poverty, the silence or the social anemia of voices.' Read less Table of Contents Foreword v Preface vii 1. Introduction 1 2. Theorizing Hunger, Poverty and Voice 3 3. Citation Across the Globe 125 4. Social Ecology of Study 149 5. Methods and Approaches 169 6. Empirical Study On Farm Reality 184 7. Empirical Study Off Farm Reality 216 8. Pooled Results and Discussion 247 9. Participatory Analysis and Empowerment 265 10.COVID Reality and Hunger 276 11.Epilogue 288 Bibliography 310 Appendix 323 Index About the Author/Editor Dr. Anannya Chakraborty is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, Punjab. She has completed her Doctoral Research as a UGC NET Junior Research Fellow under the guidance of Prof. S. K. Acharya, in the Department of Agricultural Extension, BCKV, Mohanpur WB. She has obtained her B.Sc. Agriculture degree and completed her M.Sc. In Agricultural Extension from the same University. Both UGC NET with JRF and ICAR NET have been qualified by her. So far, she has authored 5 books and 18 of her papers (2 international publications) have successfully published in peer reviewed journals and some are in progress. She has taken part actively in a number of national and international seminars and conferences. She was honoured with best paper awards twice. Prof. Sankar Kr Acharya, former Head, Dept. of Agril Extension and Director, Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, WB, born on 6th October, 1960, started his career as Assistant Professor at BCKV in 1988 and has been in teaching, research and extension over 30 years. Research Publication: 217 in National and International Journals. Book Publication: 97 books authored/ co-authored Membership of Distinction: Chancellor Nominee on selection committee for professors positions; Member of Agriculture Commission; Marketing and Extension Sub Committee, Govt. of West Bengal; Expert member WWF projects in BTR (Buxa Tiger Reserve Project); Expert member; DFID project on Primary Education (DPEP); REIA, Visited Italy, France, Germany, China, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Delivered 18 Key note addresses in International Congress, Chaired 19 Sessions in International conferences, Editors of a score of national and international journals. He has so far been awarded with 13 best paper awards in National and International Conferences Organizing Secretary of two International Conferences, He has also been honoured to be selected as the Convener of Panel (PE-32) entitled The hunger , poverty and silence of IUAES, University of Manchester, UK, 2013. He is the fellow, ISEE, IARI, New Delhi. Dr. Amit Baran Sharangi is a Professor of BCKV (Agricultural University) attached with teaching, research and extension for about 23 years. He completed his Post-Doctorate from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is specially trained from IISR, IIHR & ARO (Tel Aviv, Israel); experienced in herbs, spices & MAPs. He worked at laboratories of Australia, USA and UK for continuing research on those crops as well as teaching Post Graduate students in the Universities abroad. Prof. Sharangi has several international awards including FULBRIGHT (USA), INSA-RSE Visiting Scientist (UK), Endeavour Award (Australia), Marquis Who'sWho (USA), Young Achievers Award (SADHNA), Higher Education Leadership Award, Outstanding Scientist Award, Bharat Ratna Mother Teresa Gold Medal Award, etc. He is Fellow of eight prestigious academies/societies. He has published about 86 peer-reviewed papers, 25 books from Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Nova Publisher, CRC Press etc and numerous book chapters within his subject area. He is also associated with 50 journals worldwide as editor-in-chief, regional & technical editor, editorial board member and active reviewer. He has administrative experience for four years as HOD, chaired several sessions of national and international conferences, run six projects so far as PI and Co-PI, developed as well as restructured PG courses as BSMA committee member (DG, ICAR, Govt of India) at national level. New Delhi; World Scientist Ranking, AD Scientific Index, 2021.