Michael Holman
Sowing the Seeds of Growth
Famine & Foreigners: Ethiopia since Live Aid
By Peter Gill
Oxford University Press 280pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
Not long before his death last year Norman Borlaug, the US agronomist responsible for what became known as the green revolution, was asked what had been the greatest disappointment in a seventy-year career that spanned the globe. He didn’t hesitate. ‘Africa,’ he replied.
His answer was not surprising.
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