The Hungry World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hungry World write by Nick Cullather. This book was released on 2011-04-01. The Hungry World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions. This “green revolution” has been credited with averting Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives, and jump-starting Asia’s economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it as a model for revitalizing Africa’s economy. But this tale of science triumphant conceals a half century of political struggle from the Afghan highlands to the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, a campaign to transform rural societies by changing the way people eat and grow food. The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew alongside development theories that targeted hunger as a root cause of war. Scientific agriculture was an instrument for molding peasants into citizens with modern attitudes, loyalties, and reproductive habits. But food policies were as contested then as they are today. While Kennedy and Johnson envisioned Kansas-style agribusiness guarded by strategic hamlets, Indira Gandhi, Marcos, and Suharto inscribed their own visions of progress onto the land. Out of this campaign, the costliest and most sustained effort for development ever undertaken, emerged the struggles for resources and identity that define the region today. As Obama revives the lost arts of Keynesianism and counter-insurgency, the history of these colossal projects reveals bitter and important lessons for today’s missions to feed a hungry world.
The Hunger War
The Hunger War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hunger War write by Matthew Richardson. This book was released on 2015-10-30. The Hunger War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the First World War the supply of food to civilians became as significant a factor in final victory as success or defeat on the battlefields. Never before had the populations of entire countries lived under siege conditions, yet this extraordinary situation is often overlooked as a decisive factor in the outcome of the conflict. Matthew Richardson, in this highly readable and original comparative study, looks at the food supply situation on the British, German, French, Russian and Italian home fronts, as well as on the battlefields. His broad perspective contrasts with some narrower approaches to the subject, and brings a fresh insight into the course of the war on all the major fronts. He explores the causes of food shortages, as well as the ways in which both combatant and neutral nations attempted to overcome them. He looks at widely differing attitudes towards alcohol during the war, and the social impacts of food shortages, as well as the ways in which armies attempted to victual their troops in the field.
War on Hunger
War on Hunger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War on Hunger write by . This book was released on 1968. War on Hunger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The War We Must Not Lose
The War We Must Not Lose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The War We Must Not Lose write by E. De la Garza. This book was released on 1985. The War We Must Not Lose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
War on Hunger
War on Hunger - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War on Hunger write by . This book was released on 1969. War on Hunger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
