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| Introduction: One Shot at a Warlord |
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Part 1 The Roots of "40 Chances" |
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Story 1 The Day I Heard the Clock Tick |
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Story 2 Prague, 1968: The Soviet Army Eats First---"We Just Get What Is Left" |
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Story 3 From Bulldozing Dirt to Building Soil |
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28 | (15) |
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43 | (11) |
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Story 5 Because "Al Called" |
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54 | (11) |
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Story 6 The Ovarian Lottery |
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65 | (7) |
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Story 7 Reality Has a Nutty Taste, Especially When Fried |
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Story 8 Where Hunger Hides |
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80 | (13) |
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Part 2 Bravery, Courage, and Hope |
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95 | (4) |
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99 | (6) |
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105 | (7) |
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Story 12 Sex and Hunger in Timbuktu |
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112 | (7) |
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119 | (7) |
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Story 14 Farming Under Fire |
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126 | (6) |
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132 | (10) |
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142 | (5) |
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Story 17 A Franciscan Padre in the Sierra Madre |
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147 | (6) |
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Story 18 Gorillas Versus Guerrillas |
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153 | (10) |
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Part 3 Hard-Learned Lessons |
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Story 19 Can This Village Be Saved? |
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165 | (10) |
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Story 20 A Complicated Legacy |
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175 | (11) |
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Story 21 For Yields to Go Up, We Have to Look Down |
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186 | (11) |
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Story 21 1/2 Owners Make Better Farmers |
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197 | (5) |
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202 | (11) |
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Story 23 What Does Doing Better Look Like? |
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213 | (9) |
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Story 24 "Who Came Up with This Crazy Idea?" |
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222 | (12) |
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Story 25 A Six-Beer Insight |
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234 | (7) |
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Story 26 Less Than Sparkling |
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241 | (16) |
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Part 4 Challenges We Need to Figure Out |
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Story 27 Elephants and Experts |
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259 | (14) |
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Story 28 Can Smarter Carrots Save Soil? |
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273 | (10) |
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Story 29 Chains That Unlock Potential |
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283 | (15) |
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Story 30 Women May Be Key, but Don't Ignore Men |
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298 | (10) |
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Story 31 Souped-Up Yields from Stripped-Down Tools |
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308 | (9) |
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Story 32 Does Aid Plant Seeds of Violence? |
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317 | (10) |
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327 | (82) |
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Story 33 Opening What Once Was Cerrado |
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329 | (11) |
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Story 34 Chocolate-Covered Opportunities |
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340 | (11) |
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Story 35 Fired Up in Ghana |
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351 | (11) |
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362 | (12) |
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374 | (8) |
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Story 38 The Power of a Piece of Paper |
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382 | (6) |
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Story 39 Farmer of the Future |
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388 | (12) |
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Story 40 A New Approach to Governance |
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| Epilogue: A Pessimistic Optimist Returns to Prague |
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409 | (4) |
| Acknowledgments |
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413 | (4) |
| Notes |
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417 | (8) |
| Index |
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