A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
Thurow, Roger
2012
Documents the story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger to secure better opportunities for their families, illuminating their challenges while explaining the necessity of improving Africa's agriculture sector.
Discusses problems related to famine and drought around the world, and examines some solutions. Features color photographs and charts, sidebars, statistics, case studies, a glossary of terms, and sources of more information.
This book explores hunger and malnutrition, farming, wars, politics, population growth, the Green Revolution, and the many other topics that make feeding the world a complicated issue.
Examines such recent issues surrounding food production for the world's growing population as the benefits and problems of fertilizers and pesticides, genetic engineering of crops, and overproduction.