A compact narrative history of American agriculture over the last century, emphasizing the farmer's growing reliance on the federal government.

The underlying structure, incentives and costs shaping international relations, state behaviour and the nature of power are profoundly different today to how th

“An urgent and at times terrifying dispatch from a distinguished reporter who has given heart and soul to his subject.”—Hampton Sides In The End of Plenty

For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the ''Green Revolution'' succeeded in South A