[The book has] encapsulated the various and essential elements that make development both a challenging and satisfying profession. It documents with accuracy of detail and anecdote the restoration of food sufficiency in Cambodia, reminding us that development is achieved through a unique mixture of science, realised opportunity, and dogged determination by many people and fair degree of good luck and chance meetings. Successful partnerships can and do achieve significant steps forward and the book provides clear evidence of this.
Giles W West, Cambodia Program, AusAID, Canberra
The Burning of the Rice
In April 1975 Ngak Chhay Heng and his family loaded their car with their personal possessions, pushed it 20 kilometres from Phnom Penh, discarded anything that differentiated them from peasant farmers ...
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