Focuses on plant health issues in sub-Saharan Africa which are key to improving yieldsReviews ways of improving the health of key African crops such as cassava, maize and grain legumesBrings together leading experts on plant health in sub-Saharan Africa

The essays in this collection illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicitedYucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced policies intended to remold Yucatan in the image of the advanced nati...