@article{1479279,
      author = {Cullather, Nick, },
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479279},
      title = {The Hungry World : America's Cold War Battle against  Poverty in Asia /},
      abstract = {Cullather has written an engrossing history of how the  United States government, along with private philanthropies  like the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, aimed to win the  hearts and bodies of rural Asia in the post World War II  decades by crafting strategies to develop and modernize  agriculture and the peasant's way of life. He explains how  America used foreign aid, modernization theory, nutrition,  statistics, and technology, to try to reconstruct the  social and political order of the decolonized and  disadvantaged countries in the region. Initially the issue  of how best to intervene in Asia's rural countryside was  contentious, with clashing visions of development and  humanitarian aid being argued throughout the 50's and 60's.  Ultimately, one strategy displaced all the others-the  "Green Revolution" and the ability to feed millions through  the miracle of genetically designed dwarf strains of grain  and rice. Cullather provides a detailed explanation of how  this policy of feeding Asian peasants became the single  strategy of "progress" adopted by the US rather than  industrialization or land reform. As current controversy  swirls about how best to aid Africa in the crisis of  nation-building, famine, and a poverty-stricken peasantry,  the story of the U.S. interventions in Asia become starkly  relevant.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674262881},
      recid = {1479279},
      pages = {1 online resource (368 p.)},
}