Persistent problems with poverty, rapid population growth and malnutrition in many developing countries are among the most serious issues facing the world today
The new international division of labor and the imposition of structural adjustment on Third World countries has necessitated a reexamination of development pol
This volume summarizes the findings and insights of obesity-related research from the full range of social sciences including anthropology, economics, governmen
Despite almost four decades and billions of dollars in development activities, we are barely in a position to track the changing dynamics of poverty or to defin
'The Green Revolution' of the 60's and 70's produced immense gains in food cereal production in the Third World. But there are huge problems in the 'post-revolu
