This book is the outcome of collective effort. It originates in the field experience, innovations, research and writings of many people in NGOs, government organizations and universities.

1. The challenge to change
a. An overview
b. Accelerating change
c. Polarization: overclass and underclass
d. An evolving consensus
e. The power and will to act
f. The challenge to change
2. Normal error
a. Errors: embedded or embraced ?
b. Macro-policy
c. Integrated Rural development programs
d. Beliefs about food and famine
e. Post-harvest losses of grain
f. Animal drawn wheeled toolcarriers
g. Woodfuel forecasts
h. People and the environment
i. The puzzle: why were we wrong ?
j. The puzzle and the challenge
3. Professional realities
a. Normal professional status
b. Things and people
c. Measurement
d. Reductionism: simplifying the complex
e. Economics: culture and cult
f. The professional prison
4. The transfer of reality
a. Realities
b. Top-down: uppers and lowers, North and South
c. Normal teaching
d. Normal(succesful) careers
e. Normal development bureaucracy