ABSTRACT
The war against world hunger is fought on many battlefields by troops seeking to increase agricultural production, improve basic health care, increase poor people’s incomes, design safety nets against exceptional entitlement shortfalls, improve the quality of the environment, change dietary practices, curb fertility rates, assure access to land, seeds, water etc. Third World governments, and bi-and multilateral development agencies are all active in these fields, yet their capacities, willingness, and resources are limited and the size of the problems often daunting.
