The Battle Against Poverty
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Page : 83 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1968
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Page : 83 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Nick Cullather
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674058828
Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions. This “green revolution” has been credited with averting Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives, and jump-starting Asia’s economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it as a model for revitalizing Africa’s economy. But this tale of science triumphant conceals a half century of political struggle from the Afghan highlands to the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, a campaign to transform rural societies by changing the way people eat and grow food. The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew alongside development theories that targeted hunger as a root cause of war. Scientific agriculture was an instrument for molding peasants into citizens with modern attitudes, loyalties, and reproductive habits. But food policies were as contested then as they are today. While Kennedy and Johnson envisioned Kansas-style agribusiness guarded by strategic hamlets, Indira Gandhi, Marcos, and Suharto inscribed their own visions of progress onto the land. Out of this campaign, the costliest and most sustained effort for development ever undertaken, emerged the struggles for resources and identity that define the region today. As Obama revives the lost arts of Keynesianism and counter-insurgency, the history of these colossal projects reveals bitter and important lessons for today’s missions to feed a hungry world.
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Release : 1969
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Author : Mike Tenbusch
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830881018
The "Goliath" of urban poverty overpowers too many kids today as they struggle to survive and thrive. Detroit native and longtime advocate for youth education Mike Tenbusch knows this firsthand. But when Christians and churches come alongside these young "Davids," we can unleash the Jonathan Effect that will turn the tide in the battle against poverty.
Author : Brian Rodgers
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Poor
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Examines how welfare has been treated in Great Britain's history from Queen Elizabeth I to after World War II.
Author : Brian Rodgers
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Public welfare
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Author : B. Rodgers
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2005-12-01
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ISBN : 9780415382908
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Timothy Wentworth Beaumont
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 1969*
Category : Poverty
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Author : Barbara Rodgers
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1968
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Author : Timothy Beaumont (Baron Beaumont.)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
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