Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Drought, desertification and food production / Michael H. Glantz -- Drought -- Desertification -- Food production: the role of marginal lands -- Cultivating the dry margins -- pt. 2. Case studies and conclusions -- The West African Sahel / Michael H. Glantz -- Somalia / Jörg Janzen -- The Brazilian Nordeste (Northeast) / Antonio Magalhães and Pennie Magee -- The dry regions
of Kenya / David Campbell -- Australia / R. Les Heathcote -- Ethiopia / James McCann -- Northwest Africa / Will Swearingen -- The Virgin lands scheme in the former Soviet Union / Igor Zonn, Michael H. Glantz and Alvin Rubinstein -- South Africa / Coleen Vogel -- Is the stork outrunning the plow? / Michael H. Glantz.