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Book reviewed in this article: The Innovator's Situation: Upper-Middle-Class Conservatism in Agricultural Communities. By FRANK CANCIAN The Efficiency of British Agriculture. By CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL STRATEGY The Development of American Agriculture: A Historical Analysis. By WILLARD W. COCHRANE Agricultural Policies in the USSR and Eastern Europe. Edited by R. A. FRANCISCO, B. A. LAIRD and R. D. LAIRD India's Rural Development: An Assessment of Alternatives. By MARCUS FRANDA Optimal Stockpiling of Grain. By BRUCE L. GARDNER Political Investment in Food Production. National and International Case Studies. Edited by BARBARA HUDDLESTON and JON McLiN Farm and Food Policy: Issues of the 1980s. By DON PAARLBERG Part Time Family Farming. By RYOHEI KADA Food and Agriculture in Global Perspective: Discussion in the Committee of the Whole of the United Nations. Edited by Toivo MILJAN Radioscopie des Communes de France, Ruralite et Relations Villes-Campagnes. By ANDRE PIATIER Livestock and Equality in East Africa. By HAROLD K. SCHNEIDER Peasants of Costa Rica and the Development of Agrarian Capitalism. By MITCHEL; A. SELIGSON The Economics of Town and Country Planning. By K. G. WILLIS     

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Book reviewed in this article: Investment Projects in Agriculture. By McDONALD P. BENJAMIN. Longman Group, Harlow. A Rural Policy for fhe EEC? By HUGH CLOUT. Methuen A Theory of Adaptive Economic Behaviour. By JOHN G. CROSS Agriculture and Economic Development. By SUBRATAG HATAK and KEN INGERSENT. Rural Land Uses and Planning: A Comparative Study of the Netherlands and the United Stales. By R. BURNELLH ELDa nd DIRK W. VISSER. An Introduction to Agricultural Geography. By DAVID GRIGG. Rural Britain: A Social Geography. By DAVIDP HILLIPS and ALLAN WILLIABM. The Common Agricultural Policy; Past, Present and Future. By BRIAN E. HILL. Economics of African Agriculture. By JOHNL EVI and MICHAELH AVINDEN Beef in Japan: Politics, Production, Marketing and Trade. By JOHN W. LONGWORTH Issues in Third World Development. Edited by KENNETH C. NOBE and RAJAN K. SAMPATH Agricultural Trade with Developing Countries International Finance for Food Security. By BARBARAH UDDLESTOND,. GALE JOHNSONS, HLOMOR EUTLINGER and ALBERTOV ALDES Agriculture: Foundations, Principles and Development. By J. R. RAEBURN Protecting Farmlands. Edited by FREDERICRK. STEINER and JOHN E. THEILAC Price and Market Policies in European Agriculture. Edited by K. J. THOMSON and R. M. WARREN Selected Writings on Agricultural Policy and Economic Analysis. By FREDERICVK. WAUCH. Edited by JAMES P. HOUCK and MARTIN E. ABEL The Common Fisheries Policy of the European Community. By MARK WISE     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Changin Countryside. Edited by JOHN BLUNDEN and NIGEL CURRY. The Countryside Handbook, Edited by ALAN ROGERS, JOHN BLUNDEN and NIGEL CURRY Agriculture and Environment: The Physical Geography of Temperate Agricultural System. By DAVID BRIGGS and FRANK CURTUNY Rural Resource Management. BY PAUL J. CLOKE and CHRIS C. PARK The Food Manufacturing Industries: Structure, Strategies, Performance and Policies. By JOHN M. CONNORR Simulation and Systems Analysis in A riculture. By CSABAC SAKIE Agricultural Credit: A Global. Enima. By JACK D. HARTMAN Undermining Rural Development with Cheap Credit. Edited by DALE W. ADAMS, DOUGLAS H. GRAHAM AND J. D. VON PISCHKEB Fertiliscrs in LIK Forming. By J. L. JOLLANS. Centre for Agricultural Strategy Agricultural Policies and World Markets. By ALEX F. MCCALLA and TIMOTHY E. JOSLINC The Common Agricultural Policy and the Less Developed Countries. By ALAN MATTHEWSG New Directions in Econometric Modelling and Forecastin in US Agriculture. Edited by GORDON C. RAUSSERN Indigenous Agricultural Revolution: Ecology and Food Production in West Africa. By PAUL RICHARDS Research in Rural Sociology and Development. Volume I: Focus on Agriculrure. Edited by HARRY K. SCHWARZWELLER Law of the Common Agricultural Policy. By FRANCIS G. SNYDER.     

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Book reviewed in this article: World Trade in Forest Products. Edited by JAMES S. BETHEL. Aid for the Development of Irrigation. Edited by IAN D. CARRUTHERS. Monitoring Systems for Agricultural and Rural Development Projects: volumes I and 2. Edited by E. CLAYTON and F. PETRY. Production Economics: Theory with Applications (2nd edition). By JOHN P. DOLL and FRANK ORAZEM. Pastoral and Social Problems in a Semi-arid Environment: A Simulation Model. Edited by T. G. FREEMAN and P. R. BENYON. Countryside Planning Yearbook 1984. Edited by ANDREW W. GILL Geo Books. Land Policy in Fiji. By D. T. LLOYD. University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy. The Spatial Organisation of New Land Sertlement in Latin America. By JACOB 0. MAOS. Planning for Agricultural Development. By J. A. MOLLETT. Croom Helm, The Politics of Agriculture in the European Community. By EDMUND NEVILLE-ROLFE. Issues and Challenges for OECD Agriculture in the 1980s. By ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT. Farmers of Five Continents. By DON PAARLBERG. Strategies for Family- Worked Farms in the UK. Edited by R. B. TRANTER. Food Grain Procurement and Consumption in China. By KENNETH R. WALKER.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature, Volume 4: Agriculture in Economic Development, 1940s to 1990s Edited by Lee R. Martin Carl K. Eicher and Doyle C. Baker. Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Survey In Lee R. Martin, ed. A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature John W. Mellor and Mohinder S. Mudahar. Agriculture in Economic Development In Lee R. Martin, ed. A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature G. Edward Schuh and Antonio Salaza P. Brandao. The Theory, Empirical Evidence and Debates on Agricultural Development Issues in Latin America In Lee R. Martin, ed. A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature Bovine Somatotropin and Emerging Issues: An Assessment Edited by M. C. Hallberg Boulder, Colorado The Ethics of Aid and Trade: U.S. Food Policy, Foreign Competition and the Social Contract Edited by Paul B. Thompson In Lee R. Martin, ed. A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature     

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Book reviews in this article: Modelling Farm Decisions for Policy Analysis. Edited by KENNETH H. BAUM and LYLE P. SCHERTZ Farm Management. By MICHAEL BOEHWE and Vernon R. EIDMAN Agriculture under the Common Agriculture Policy: A Geography. By IAN R. BOWLER Agricultural Development in the Third World. Edited by CARL K. EICHER and JOHN M. STAATZ British Agriculture since 1945. By B. A. HOLDERNESS Farming for Farmers? A Critique of Agricultural Support Policy. By RICHARD W. HOWARTH The Making of the Shetland Landscape. By SUSAN A. KNOX. John Donald Economics of Agricultural Development in Tropical Africa. By S. LA-ANYANE. John Wiley & Sons Agricultural Development and Nutrition. Edited by ARNOLD PACEY and PHILIP PAYNE The Energy Trap: Work, Nutrition and Child Malnutrition in Northern Nigeria. BY RICHARD LONGHURST The World Food Problem 1950–1980. By DAVID GRIGG Citizenship, Gender, and Work: Social Organisation of Industrial Agriculture. By ROBERT J. THOMAS     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Economics and Rural Land-Use. By M. J. Stabler . Macmillan, London Agriculture in Development Theory. Edited by L. G. Reynolds Farming Finance. By Peter Clery . Farming Press, Ipswich The Man/Food Equation. Edited by F. Steele and A. Bourne . Academic Press, London Agricultural Research and Productivity. By Robert E. Evenson and Yoav Kislev . Yale University Press The Development of Tropical Lands: Policy Issues in Latin America. By Michael Nelson The Biology of Agricultural Systems. By C. R. W. Spedding . Academic Press, London Study of Agricultural Systems. Edited by G. E. Dalton . Applied Science Publishers     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Policy in Britain. By E. F. NASH, late Professor of Agricultural Economics at University College of Wales. Edited by Gavin McCrone and E. A. Attwood The Economics of Agricultural Development. By JOHN W. MELLOR Methods for Land Economics Research. Edited by W. L. GIBSON, JR., R. J. HILDRETH, and GENE WUNDERLICH Agriculture: The Cost of Joining the Common Market. By T. K. WARLEY Agricultural Geography. By DR. LESLIE SYMONS Agricultural Insurance: Principles and Organisation and Application to Developing Countries. By P. K. RAY Food Marketing. By L. B. DARRAH Beet Sugar in the West. A History of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891–1966. By L. J. ARRINGTON Economic Development and Social Change in a South Gujarat Village. By V. H. JOSHI Economic Development: Issues and Policies. A Commemoration Volume presented to Dr. P. S. Lokanathan on his 72nd Birthday. Twenty-four contributors. Editors D. H. BUTANI and PRITAM SINGH Irish Agricultural Production-Its Volume and Structure. By RAYMOND D. CROTTY Agricultural Production and the Economic Development of Japan, 1873–1922 By JAMES I. NAKAMURA The Egyptian Agarian Reform 1952-62. By GABRIEL S. SAAB, R.I.I.A. Claus Spreckels: The Sugar King in Hawaii. By JACOB ADLER Agricultural Financing in India. By S. N. GHOSAL     

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Book reviewed in this article: Food for the Future. By KEITH 0. CAMPBELL. University of Nebraska Press Co-operative and Commune. Group Farming in the Economic Development of Agriculture. Edited by PETER DORNER The Common Agricultural Poky of the European Community. By ROSEMARY FENNELL The Role of US Agriculture in Foreign Policy. By R. M. FRAENKEL, D. F. HADWICER AND W. P. BROWNE The Political Economy of Collectivised Agriculture. A Comparative Study of Communist and Non-communist Systems. Edited by R. A. FRANCISCO, B. A. LAIRD and R. D. LAIRD The Economics of World Grain Trade. By T. GRENNES, P. R. JOHNSON and M. C. THURSBY. The New Politics of Food. Edited by D. F. HADWIGER and W. P. BROWNE The Global Political Economy of Food. Edited by R. F. HOPKINS and D. J. PUCHALA. Natural Resource Economics. Isues, Analysis and Policy. By CHARLES W. HOW. John Wiley and Sons Agricultural Commodities Index. Edited by JANE BUZBY MCFALL. Green and Pleasant Land? Social Change in Rural England. By HOWARD NEWBY An Introduction to Agricultural System. By C. R. W. SPEDDING     

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Book reviewed in this article: Rural Change and Public Policy: Eastern Europe, Latin America and Australia. Edited by W. P. AVERY, R. E. LONSDALE and I. VOLGYES National Food Policy in the UK. By CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL STRATEGY The Land and People of Northeast Brazil. By MANUEL CORREIA DE ANDRADE. (Translated by Dennis V. Johnson) Uxpanapa: Agricultural Development in the Mexican Tropics. By P. T. EWELL and T. T. POLEMAN The Waste of Nations. The Economic Utilisation of Human Waste in Agriculture. By LATTEE A. FAHM. Allenheld, Osmun & Co., New Jersey The Farmer as Manager. By TONY GILES and MALCOLM STANSFIELD. George Allen and Unwin Pesticides: Contemporary Roles in Agriculture, Health, and the Environment. Edited by T. J. SHEETS and D. PIMENTEL Prospects for Agriculture in the European Economic Community. Edited by M. TRACY and I. HODAC Agriculture and Society in Seventeenth Century Scotland. By IAN WHYTE. John Donald, Edinburgh     

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Book reviewed in this article: Food Economy in Hungary. By Ernö Csizmadia and Magda Székely Corporate Innovation: Marketing and Strategy. By Gordon R. Foxall The Economic Mind: The Social Psychology of Economic Behaviour. By Adrian Furnham and Alan Lewis Mathematical Programming for Economic Analysis in Agriculture. By Peter B. R. Hazell and Roger D. Norton Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution. By Polly Hill Elements of Agricultural Trade Policies. By James P. Houck World Food Marketing Systems. Edited by Erdener Kaynak Creating Rural Employment. By B. H. Kinsey Measuring the Benefits of Clean Air and Water. By Allen V. Kneese The Economics of Natural Environments: Studies in the Valuation of Commodity and Amenity Resources (2nd edition). By John V. Krutilla and Anthony C. Fisher World Recession and the Food Crisis in Africa. Edited by Peter Lawrence The Victorian Countryside (2 vols). Edited by G. E. Mingay Economics of Crop Insurance with Special Reference to the Needs and Situations in Developing Countries. By P. K. Ray Calcutta Crop Insurance for Agricultural Development: Issues and Experience. Edited by Peter Hazell, Carlos Pomareda and Alberto Valdes. Agricultural Insurance: A New Policy for Developing Countries. By Syed M. Ahsan. Aldershot Hoofprints on the Forest: Cattle Ranching and the Destruction of Latin America's Tropical Forests. By Douglas R. Shane Getting Prices Right: The Scope and Limits of Agricultural Price Policy. By C. Peter Timmer     

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Book reviewed in this article: Economic Theory and Practice in the Asian Setting. Economics for Agriculturists: A Beginning Text in Agricultural Economics. By JOHN SJO. Externalities in the Transformation of Agriculture: Distribution of Benefits and Costs from Development. Edited by EARL O. HEADY and LARRY R. WHITING. Study of Agricultural Systems. Edited by G. E. DALTON. Rural Development in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Edited by R. D. STEVENS, H. ALAVI and P. J. BERTOCCI.     

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Rural Industrialization. The Impact of Industrialization on Two Rural Communities in Western Ireland. By D. I. F. LUCY and D. R. KALDOR The Economic Development of Thai AgricuZture. By T. H. SILCOCK Supply Response in Underdeveloped Agriculture: A Case Study of Four Major Annual Crops in Thailand, 1937-1963. By J. H. BEHRMAN The New Strategy of Agricultural Development in Operation: A Case Study of the Kiara District in Gujarat. By B. M. DESAI and M. D.DESAI Elements of Regional Economics. By H. W. RICHARDS Economic Relations between India and Pakistan, by C. N. VAKIL and G. RAGHAVA RAO Foundations of Indian Agriculture. Edited by V. DAGLI Statistical Outline of Indian Economy. By V. G. KULKARN     

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Book reviewed in this article: Food Goals, Future Structural Changes and Agricultural Policy: A National Basebook. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Problems of Change in Australian Agriculture. Edited by J. P. MAKEHAM and J. G. BIRD Management Science in Marketing. By D. B. MONTGOMERY and G. L. URBAN A Managerial Zntroduction to Marketinp. Bv T. A. STAUDT and D. A. TAYLOR Economic Activity. By G. C. HARCOURT, P. H. KARMEL and R. H. WALLACE Australia from the Air. Edited by M. WILLIAMS Development of Co-operative Marketing: A Survey Report. RESERVE BANK OF INDIA     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Politics of Development: Sugar Co-operatives in Rural Maharashtra. By B. S. BAVISKAR The Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies: Critical Perspectives. Edited by FREDERICK BUTTEL and HOWARD NEWBY Meeting the Basic Needs of the Rural Poor: The Integrated Community-Based Approach. Edited by PHILIP H. COOMBS Rural Poverty Unperceived: Problems and Remedies. By ROBERT CHAMBERS Cattle, Economics and Development. By RAYMOND CROTTY Organisational Structure and Market Strategy. By GORDON R. FOXALL The European Community and the Third World: The Lomé Convention and its Impact. By ELLEN FREY-WOUTERS The Political Economy of EEC Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States. Edited by FRANK LONG Farming Systems Research: A Critical Appraisal. By E. H. GILBERT, D. W. NORMAN and F. E. WINCH The Food Lobbyists. By HAROLD D. GUITHER An Introduction to Economics for Students of Agriculture. By BERKELEY HILL Bioresources for Development: The Renewable Way of Life. Edited by A. KING and H. CLEVELAND Britain's Wasting Acres: Land Use in a Changing Society. By GRAHAM Moss The Theft of the Countryside. By MARION SHOARD Farm Modernisation and the Countryside. By F. G. STURROCK and J. CATHIE Agrarmarktforschung. By O. STRECKER, J. REICHERT, P. POTTEBAUM, R. WEGE and H. FROHN     

Book Reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Agricultural Cooperatives in Transition Edited by Csaba Csaki and Yaov Kislev
Agriculture et Développement Economique au Québec J-P. Wampach
Agricultural Dimensions of Global Climate Change Edited by Harry M. Kaiser and Thomas E. Drennen
Microcomputer-based Input-output Modelling: Applications to Economic Development Edited by D. M. Otto and T. G. Johnson
Managing Food Security in Unregulated Markets Edited by Robert D. Reinsel
Economic Myths: Making Sense of Canadian Policy Issues Patrick Luciani     

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Book reviewed in this article: Long Term Projections of Agricultural Supply and Demand: Australia 1965 to 1980. By F. H. GRUENan d others. Studies in the Development of Agricultural Economics in Europe. By J. Nou. Individual Freedom and the Economic Organization of US. Agriculture. By F. Breimyer. A Manual of AustraEiun Agriculture. Edited by I. MOlnar. Agricultural Policy in Britain: Selected Papers by E. F. Nash. Edited by G. McCronea and E. A. Attwood Co-operative Bargaining in Agriculture: Grower-Processor Markets for Fruits and Vegetables. By P. G. Helmberger and S. Hoos Revolving Finance in Agricultural Co-operatives. By H. E. Erdman and G. H. Larsen. Economic Development of Agriculture. Edited by E. 0. Haroldson Technological Change: Its Conception and Measurement. By L. B, Lave. Agricultural Development of Taiwan 1903-1960. By Yhi-Min Ho Capital Formation in Indian Agriculture. By T. Shukla. Atlantic Agricultural Unity: Is It Possible? By J. O. Coppock. The South-West Region of Western Australia. By A. Kerr. Land and People in the Northern Plains Transition Area. By H. W. Ottoson     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Costs of the Common Agricultural Policy. By Allan Buckwell, David Harvey, Kenneth Thomson and Kevin Parton. The Political Economy of Food Aid. By John Cathie. Resource and Environmental Economics. By Anthony C. Fisher. Rural Society in Southeast India. By Kathleen Gough. Grassland in the British Economy. Edited by J. L. Jollans. Progress in Rural Extension and Community Development, volume 1. Edited by Gwyn E. Jones and Maurice Rolls. A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature,/Volume 3: Economics of Welfare, Rural Development and Natural Resources in Agriculture, 1940s to 1970s. Edited by Lee R. Martin. Agricultural Co-operation. By Malcolm Sargent. The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. By S. B. de Silva.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The Farmer as Manager , Second Edition T. Giles and M. Stansfield
Grain Grades and Standards Edited by L. D. Hill
Agriculture and Economic Survival: The Role of Agriculture in Ecuador's Development Edited by M. D. Whitaker and D. Coyer
Development Models Followed by Ecuador and Proposed Model
Priority and Contribution of Agriculture in Ecuador
Economics and the Environment: A Reconciliation Edited by W. Block
Canadian Agricultural Trade, Disputes, Actions, Prospects Edited by G. Lermer and K. K. Klein Calgary
The Political Economy of Agricultural Trade and Policy: Toward a New Order for Europe and North America Edited by H. J. Michelmann, J. C. Stabler and G. G. Storey     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Economics and Marketing in the Tropics. By J. C. Abbott and J. P. Makeham. Strategy for the LIK Dairy industry. Rural Employment and Adminktration in the Third World. By Charles Harvey, Jake Jacobs, Geoff Lamb and Bernard Schaffer. Agricultural Marketing Boar: An Zn fernationol Perspective. Edited by Sidney Hoos. The Economics of Pastoralism: A Case Study of Sub-Saharan Africa. By Z. A. Konczacki. A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature. Volume 2. Quantitative Methods in Agricultural Economics, 1940s to 1970s. Edited by Lee R. Martin. .And the Desert Shall Rejoice. Conflict, Growth and Justice in Arid Environments. By Arthur Maass and Raymond L. Anderson. The Plant Protection Discipline. Problems and Possible Development Strategies. By Webster H. Sill Economics and Design of Small-Farmer Technology. Edited by Alberto Valdes, Grant M. Scobie and John L. Dillon.