The Great Recession has spawned a shelf of books, many of them good, on what went so wrong. So far this year, we’ve had at least two first-rate books on where we are now and what will happen next.
It is Africa’s cruelest irony that her hungriest people are her smallholder farmers. For decades, development orthodoxy had prioritized feeding hungry farmers with emergency food aid rather than improving their farming with long-term agriculture development aid so they wouldn’t be hungry in the first place.
While struggling through the hunger season, Leonida noticed that some other farmers in western Kenya were doubling or tripling their maize harvest. Curious, she asked for their secret.
During my service in the US Congress I had the opportunity to serve on the House Select Committee on Hunger for its entire life until it was eliminated in 1995.
While struggling through the hunger season, Leonida noticed that some other farmers in western Kenya were doubling or tripling their maize harvest. Curious, she asked for their secret.
