History teaches us that agricultural growth and development is necessary for achieving overall better living conditions in all societies. Although this process

This monograph, A World without Agriculture, was the 2007 Henry Wendt Lecture, delivered at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C. on Octob

This book uses a global history approach in order to reach a greater understanding of the agricultural transformation process, using a wide number of comparison

A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development progr

Gunnar Myrdal published his magnum opus, Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations, in 1968. He was deeply pessimistic about development prospects in