Food security in sub-Saharan Africa / Cheryl Christensen -- The external determinants of Africa's agrarian crisis / Michael F. Lofchie -- The economic crisis in Ethiopia / Keith B. Griffin -- Toward food security in South Asia / F. Tomasson Jannuzi -- The dependent welfare state : nutrition, entitlements, and exchange in Sri Lanka / Ronald J. Herring -- The Chinese economy after Mao / Keith B. Griffin -- Latin American agriculture from import substitution industrialization to debt crisis / Alain de Janvry -- The politics of hunger in Brazil / W. Ladd Hollist -- Cocaine and food : likely effects of a burgeoning transnational industry on food production in Bolivia and Peru / F. LaMond Tullis -- Food problems and state policies in the Middle East and North Africa / Alan Richards