Publisher's Synopsis
"This ambitious, enlightened handbook is a cornucopia of strategies and ideas for concerned citizens and policymakers."-Publishers Weekly
"Give equal education and power to women throughout the world, argue the authors: when that happens, birth rates fall and food supplies go up."-San Francisco Chronicle (Best Bets of 1995)
"[The book] can help us understand the past and possible future of the meals most Westerners take for granted."-Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books
"A well-reasoned account of how poverty forces unsustainable use of natural resources . . . a careful and balanced treatment of developments in agriculture . . . that may help food production to stay ahead of population growth."-Basia Zaba, Nature
"This generation faces a set of challenges unprecedented in their scope and severity and in the shortness of time left to resolve them. . . . The Stork and the Plow sets these out thoughtfully [and] accurately. . . . We can all hope this urgent message is carefully heeded."-Henry W. Kendall, Nobel laureate and Julius A. Stratton Professor of Physics, MIT
"A wonderful piece of work."-Partha Dasgupta, American Scientist