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Shades of Green

Nature volume 391, page 139 (1998)Cite this article

The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the 21st Century

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Penguin: 1997 Pp. 335 £9.99 (pbk)

This is a serious and substantial book by a thoughtful and well-informed author. An entomologist with 30 years experience, much in the Asian tropics, Gordon Conway is now head of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and will soon become president of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. He therefore occupies prominent niches in development organizations.

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