pt. 1. Drought, desertification and food production / Michael H. Glantz
Food production: the role of marginal lands
Cultivating the dry margins
pt. 2. Case studies and conclusions
The West African Sahel / Michael H. Glantz
The Brazilian Nordeste (Northeast) / Antonio Magalhães and Pennie Magee
The dry regions of Kenya / David Campbell
Australia / R. Les Heathcote
Northwest Africa / Will Swearingen
The Virgin lands scheme in the former Soviet Union / Igor Zonn, Michael H. Glantz and Alvin Rubinstein
South Africa / Coleen Vogel
Is the stork outrunning the plow? / Michael H. Glantz.