The rice revolution, plotted from the International Rice Research Institute
in the Philippines, has fed the economic and demographic boom in Asia for a
generation. Feeding A Hungry Planet by James Lang (University of North Carolina
Press, $15.95, ISBN 0 8078 4593 0) is a social and technical history of
the revolution. A good story and an excellent read.
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