The Hungry World

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The Hungry World

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 peasantâ€™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 Asiaâ€™s rural countryside was contentious, with clashing visions of development and humanitarian aid being argued throughout the 50â€™s and 60â€™s. Ultimately, one strategy displaced all the othersâ€”the â€œGreen Revolutionâ€ 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 â€œprogressâ€ 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.

Country	USA
Author	Nick Cullather
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780674058828
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Harvard University Press
Manufacturer	Harvard University Press
NumberOfPages	368
PublicationDate	2011-04-01
Publisher	Harvard University Press
ReleaseDate	2011-04-01
Studio	Harvard University Press

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