How the World Hunger Problem Was not Solved

Together with an in-depth account of the world food crisis, this book analyses how this global scheme largely failed.

1. Introduction: the Global Level 2. The World Food Crisis, 1972-75 3. A Global Wave of Famines 4. The Small Peasant approach to Combatting Hunger and Poverty; Ideas and Breakthrough 5. Degrees of Implementation: Global Perspectives 6. Unexpected Limits of Growth: The Spread of Capital and Technology 7. Bangladesh: Impoverishment, Hunger and Credit 8. Indonesia: Limits to Farming Intensification and Poverty Alleviation 9. Tanzania: Impoverishment after Enforced Villagization 10. Mali: Changes in the Neglected Drylands 11. Comparing the Case Studies 12. Projections and Predictions: Imagining the Future 13. An "Effective Utilization of Women" 14. The Bigger Picture