Table of Contents

Definitions Primacy of Agriculture Literacy The Political Process Failures Successes Conclusion Bibliography Index

About the Author

RONALD E. SEAVOY is with the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington. Previous books by the author include Famine in Peasant Societies (Greenwood Press, 1986), Famine in East Africa: Food Production and Food Policies (Greenwood Press, 1989), and The American Peasantry: Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1995 (Greenwood Press, 1998).