From Everglades to sugar bowl and back again? -- The sugar question in frontier Florida -- Securing sugar, draining the 'Glades -- Wish fulfillment for Florida growers : managed market, disciplined labor, engineered landscape -- The Cold War heats up the nation's sugar bowl -- A restructured...

Macroeconomic performance and policies -- Employment, food security and poverty -- Physical and social infrastructure -- Agricultural and rural industrialisation -- Foreign direct investment in manufacturing and services -- Socio-political issues in the reform process