Insufficient data generally identifies the malnourished as migrant urban poor, landless and near-landless laborers, and small farmers. Nutrition programs more easily reach urban poor than rural poor. Improved technology and new land settlement could help. However, demand for farm labor would be seasonal, increasing the need for small industry…

The crisis in Jamaican agriculture is due to environmental factors like climate conditions and to social and economic factors like the plantation system. Along with mining, tourism, and manufacturing, agriculture has a key role to play in the Jamaican economy. Suggests ways to improve productivity by aid to family farms. (CS)

The Great Leap Forward disaster, characterized by a collapse in grain production and a widespread famine in China between 1959 and 1961, is found attributable to a systemic failure in central planning. Wishfully expecting a great leap in agricultural productivity from collectivization, the Chinese government accelerated its aggressive…