There is a side to world hunger that few people see. Though media coverage focuses on the bolder headlines of food shortage, poverty, and failure in the developing world, there has also occurred a quiet revolution of positive change. Award-winning journalist Richard M. Harley has spent the better part of a decade tracking these hopeful trends. The concerned public, as well as students and specialists in international development, will find Breakthroughs on Hunger the human face of issues that too often remain abstract and remote.
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Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 I. Shifting Assumptions: Whose Ways Are Best? Chapter 3 1. Experienced Scientist Meets Experienced Peasant Chapter 4 2. A Race Between Food and Population: Science Meets Social Challenge Chapter 5 3. Excursion to Environmental Extremity: The Uncommon Logic of Change in West Africa's Parched Sahel Part 6 II. Power and the Powerless Chapter 7 4. Playing Forces at the Top for Advantage at the Bottom Chapter 8 5. Excursion to Economic Extremity: How Unreachable Are the "Unreachable Poor"? Chapter 9 6. When the Top Is Not Cooperating: Organizing to Make It against All Odds Part 10 III. Energies in the Learning Process Chapter 11 7. When Economy and Nature Get in Sync: Easing Man-Nature Warfare in the Himalayas Chapter 12 8. Late-breaking Insights for Change: Women, Hunger, and High-tech in Gandhi Country
