This book analyses a large Australian aid-funded rural development project, the Magarini Settlement Project in Coast Province, Kenya. The authors describe how it was originated, what is was meant to achieve, and why it failed spectacularly. While they consider why this project failed to fulfil...

The world food problem -- Mexico's way out -- A continent of peasants -- We shall release the waters -- A very big, very poor country -- Parable of seeds -- You can't eat steel -- The meaning of famine -- The conquest of hunger -- Present at the recreation