1 Introduction
The global level
2 The world food crisis, 1972-1975
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 to growth: the spread of capital and technology
Case studies
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
General observations
11 Comparing the case studies
12 Projections and predictions: imaginations of the future
13 An "effective utilization of women"
14 The bigger picture
Biography
Christian Gerlach is Professor of History at the University of Bern. His fields of research are mass violence, war and the history of agriculture, food, hunger and development. Among his earlier books is Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth Century World (2010).
