Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; 1. The Region: Its Food Potential and Constraints; The Food Deficit; The National Picture; Food and Assistance Systems; Notes; 2. The Agricultural Sector in Development Policy; A Sectoral Profile; The Political Context; National Investment Strategies; Notes; 3. Agrarian Development Goals and Strategies, and Class Inequalities; The Structure of Classes; Distributive Strategies; Reformative Strategies Institutional Strategies -- Cooperative SchemesInstitutional Strategies -- Collectives; Basic Needs and Class Interests; Notes; 4. Bureaucratic Values, Structures, and Decisions; The Patrimonial System; Policy Implementation: Center and Periphery; Reform and Administrative Decentralization; Bureaucratic Decision Styles; Notes; 5. Food Aid, Trade, and Development Assistance; U.S. Food Aid and Trade; U.S. Food Aid and Foreign Policy; Assistance Programs and Trade: Europe and the Communist States; Multilateral Development and Financial Assistance; Intraregional Economic Assistance Assistance and Domestic PoliciesThe Food-Oil Link; Notes; 6. Food and Political Stability; Food and Urban Violence; Rural Discontent; Conflict and Production; Islamic Resurgence and Agrarian Policy; Prospects for the 1980s; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index