Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 I. Shifting Assumptions: Whose Ways Are Best? Chapter 3 1. Experienced Scientist Meets Experienced Peasant Chapter 4 2. A Race Between Food and Population: Science Meets Social Challenge Chapter 5 3. Excursion to Environmental Extremity: The Uncommon Logic of Change in West Africa's Parched Sahel Part 6 II. Power and the Powerless Chapter 7 4. Playing Forces at the Top for Advantage at the Bottom Chapter 8 5. Excursion to Economic Extremity: How Unreachable Are the "Unreachable Poor"? Chapter 9 6. When the Top Is Not Cooperating: Organizing to Make It against All Odds Part 10 III. Energies in the Learning Process Chapter 11 7. When Economy and Nature Get in Sync: Easing Man-Nature Warfare in the Himalayas Chapter 12 8. Late-breaking Insights for Change: Women, Hunger, and High-tech in Gandhi Country

About the Author

Richard M. Harley received his master's degree from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He won awards for his writing about international development issues for the Christian Science Monitor. He currently serves on the faculty of the Harvard Institute for International Development and directs the Boston-based television company World Development Productions, Inc.