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Book reviewed in this article: Co-operation in World Agriculture: Experiences, Problems and Perspectives. Edited by Theodor Bergmann and Takekazu B. Ogura Alternative Enterprises for Agriculture in the UK. Edited by S. P. Carruthers Confrontation or Negotiation: United States Policy and European Agriculture. By Agricultural Policy and Trade: Adjusting Domestic Programs in an International Framework. By D. Gale Johnson, Kenzo Hemmi and Pierre Lardinois Rural Development, Employment and Incomes in Kenya. By Ian Livingstone Agricultural Development in Southern Africa: Farm Household Economics and the Food Crisis. By Allan Low The Economics of Tropical Farm Management. By J. P. Makeham and L. R. Malcolm Subjective Equilibrium Theory of the Farm Household. By C. Nakajima Agricultural Household Models: Extensions, Applications, and Policy. Edited by Inderjit Singh, Lyn Squire and John Strauss The Farm Business. By Leonard Norman, Richard Turner and Kenneth Wilson World Trade in Forest Products 2. Edited by Gerard F. Schreuder Economics of Irish Agriculture. By Seamus J. Sheehy and Robert O'Connor Collective Farms which Work? By Nigel Swain Historical Farm Buildings of Wales. By Eurwen Wiliam. John Donald Range Economics. By John P. Workman     

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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: 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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A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature. Volume I. Traditional Fields of Agricultural Economics, 1940s to 1970s. Edited by LEE R. MARTIN. Agriculture and the State-British Policy in a World Context. Edited by B. DAVEY, T. E. JOSLING and A. MCFARQUHAR. Agriculture in Development Theory. Edited by LLQYD G. REYNOLDS. Socialist Agriculture in Hungary. By E. CSIZMADIA. Crop Management Economics. By ALLAN N. RAE.     

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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: Farm Life in Northeast Scotland, 1840–1914: The Poor Man's Country. By Ian Carter The Development of Agriculture in Germany and the UK: Part I. Germany Agriculture 1870–1970. By Robert Cecil . vii+69 pages. Part II. UK Agricultureal Policy 1870–1970. By John H. Kirk . vii+110 pages. Part III. Comparative Times Series 1870–1975. By David Andrews , Mark Mitchell and Adolf Weber Agricultural Policy. Formative Influences in Britain. By T. W. Gardner World Food Prospects and Agricultural Potential. By Marylin Chou , David P. Harmon JR., Herman Kahn and Sylvan H. Wittwer Food and Population: Priorities in Decision Making. Edited by T. Dams , K. E. Hunt and G. J. Tyler Beyond the Age of Waste: a report to the Club of Rome. By D. Gabor and U. Colombo with A. King and R. Galli Drought and Irrigation in North-east Brazil. By Anthony L. Hall Agricultural Marketing for Developing Countries. Edited by Dov Izraeli , Dafna N. Izraeli and Frank Meissner Capital and Land. Landownership by Capital in Great Britain. By Doreen Massey and Aluandrina Catalano Landscape Economics. By Colinp Price The Future of Upland Britain. Edited by R. D. B. TRANTER Rural Resource Development: An Economic Approach. By M. C. WHITBY and K. G. WILLIS     

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Book reviewed in this article: Working the Range: Essays on the History of Western Land Management and the Environment: Edited by John R. Wunder Agricultural Project Management: Monitoring and Control of Implementation Farming for Farmers? U. S. Agricultural Policy: The 1985 Farm Leglslatlon: Bruce L. Cardner, editor American Enterprise Institute Transportation Models for Agricultural Products: Edited by Won W. Koo and Donald W. Larson Westview Special Studies in Agriculture Science and Policy 1986     

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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.     

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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 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: A Year in the Life of a Field. By Michael Allaby. David & Charles, Newton Abbot. Agricultural Marketing. By J. W. Barker. Oxford University Press. 1981. vi + 226 pages. Economics and Resources Policy. Edited by John A. Butlin. Longman Group, Harlow. The Economics of Irrigation. By Ian Carruthers and Colin Clark. Liverpool University Press. Effective Writing in Advisory Work. By Graham Cherry and Nigel Harvey. Ministry of Agriculture, A Framework for Development: The EEC and the ACP. By Carol Cosgrove -Twitchett . EEC and the Third World: A Survey. Edited by Christopher Stevens Rural Housing: Competition and Choice. By Michael Dunn , Marilyn Rawson and Alan Rogers . The New South and the ‘New Competition’. By James E. Fickle . Imperfect Markets in Agricultural Trade. Edited by Alex McCalla and Timothy Josling . Seven Decades of Rural Social Work: From Country Life Commission to Rural Caucus. By Emilia E. Martinez -Brawley . Planning African Development. Edited by Glen Norcliffe and Tom Pinfold . Aquaculture Economics: Basic Concepts and Methods of Analysis. By Yung C. Shang . No Homes for Locals? By Mark Shucksmith . Food Security for Developing Countries. Edited by Alberto Valdes .     

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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: Problems of Progress in the Agricultural Economy. By D. E. Hathaway. American Farm Policy. By D. Paarlberg Studies on Developing Countries: Vol. I, Planning and Economic Development; Vol. 2, Agriculture, Land Reforms and Economic Development. Edited by I. Sacks Forestry in Communist China. By S. D. Richardson     

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Book reviewed in this article: A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature. Volume 1. Traditional Fields of Agricultural Economics, 1940s to 1970s. Edited by Lee R. Martin . An Economic Analysis of Agriculture. By B. E. Hill and K. A. Ingersent. The Economics of Futures Trading. Edited by B. A. Goss and B. S. Yamey . U.K. Agricultural Policy within the European Community. By J. S. MARS Special Interests and Policy making: Agricultural Policies and Politics in Britain and the United States of America. By G. K. Wilson . John Wiley, Soviet Agriculture: An Assessment of its Contribution to Economic Development. Edited by H. G. Shaffer . Agriculture in the People's Republic of China: Structural Changes and Technical Transformation. By Leslie T. C. Kuo . The Gezira Scheme: An Illusion of Development. By Tony Barnett . Growing Out of Poverty. Edited by Elizabeth Stamp .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Farm Planning and Control. By C. S. Barnard and J. S. Nix. Cambridge University Press The United Kingdom Cereal Market— an econometric investigation into the effects of pricing policies. By David Colman International Trade in Temperate Zone Products. By F. O. Grogan. Oliver and Boyd (for the Agricultural Adjustment Unit, University of Newcastle upon Tyne) World Sugar Markets in a State of Flux. By Simon Harris and Ian Smith. Trade Policy Research Centre The World Tea Economy. By G. K. Sarkar. Oxford University Press Policy Integration in Canadian Agriculture. By R. W. Crown and E. O. Heady. Iowa State University Press Behavioral Change in Agriculture— Concepts and Strategies for Influencing Transition. Edited by J. P. Leagans and C. P. Loomis Inducing Technological Change for Economic Growth and Development. Edited by R. A. Solo and Everett M. Rogers. Michigan State University Press     

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Book reviewed in this article: Decisions Under Uncertainty with Research Applications. By A. N. HALTER and G. W. DEA Cost-Benefit Analysis. By E. J. MISHAN Systems Analysis in Agricultural Management. Edited by J. B. DENT and J. R. ANDERSON Foundations of Farm Policy. By LUTHER TWEETEN Institutions in Agricultural Development. Edited by M. G. BLASE The Reluctant Farmer. The Rise of Agricultural Extension to 1914. By ROY V. SCOTT The Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Recomtruction. By T. H. SHEN Bank Credit to Farmers for Irrigation Development. By RESERVE BANK OF INDIA Conditions Necessary for Agricultural Growth. By A. N. RAJAMANI Agricultural Development and Population Growth. By R. N. TEWARI Agricultural Price Stabilization in India. By B. Y. JHA Economics of Land Consolidation in India. By S. K. AGARWAL     

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Book reviewed in this article: World Tables 1976. Published for the World Bank by John Hopkins Agricultural Tractors: A World Industry Study. By R. T. Kudrle . John Wiley. Agrarian Change in the Scottish Highlands. By John Bryden and George Houston . Martin Robertson, Socialist Agriculture in Hungary. By Ernö Csizmadia (translated by Ferenc Szirbik and György Pésci). Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. Agricultural Development in Kenya: An Economic Assessment. Edited by Judith Heyer Resource Allocation and Productivity in National and International Agricultural Research. Edited by Thomas W. Arndt , Dana G. Dalrymple and Vernon W. Ruttan .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Economic Models and Quantitative Methods for Decisions and Planning in Agriculture. Edited by EARL 0. HEADY Benefits and Burdens of Rural Development. By IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Agricultural Policy. Edited by C. D. THROSBY. Corporate Farming and the Family Farm. By THE NATIONAL FARM INSTITUTE. The Northern Myth. By B. R. DAVIDSON. Structural Reform Measures in Agriculture. By ORGANIZATION FORECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT. The Pastoral Age: A Re-examination. By G. J, ABBOTT Microeconomics: The Theory of Economic Allocation. By C. A. TISDELL. Business Cost-Benefit Anlaysis. By R. F. J. DEWHURST Ecology and Economics-Contro2ling Pollution in the 70s. By MARSHALL I. GOLDMAN Intersectoral Capital Flows in the Economic Development of Taiwan, 1895-1 960. By TENG-HUI LEE. Evaluation of L a d Reforms. By M. L. DANTWALA and C. H. SHAH. Volume I, General Report. Basic Concepts of Rural Sociology. By G. BOGUSLAW GALESKI.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Prices, Policy, and Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa Dharam Ghai and Lawrence D. Smith Boulder U.S. Agriculture and Third World Development: The Critical Linkage edited by Randall B. Purcell and Elizabeth Morrison Boulder Accelerating Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by John W. Mellor, Christopher L. Delgado and Malcolm J. Blackie Baltimore Dynamic Programming: Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources John O. S. Kennedy     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Economics of Production. By BRUCE R. BEATTIE and C. ROBERT TAYLOR. Room for Manoeuvre: An Exploration of Public Policy in Agricultural and Rural Development. Edited by E. J. CLAY and B. B. SCHAFFER. Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland, 1770–1914. Edited by T. M. DEVINE. The Planning and Management of Environmentally Sensitive Areas. By PAUL F. J. EAGLES. Farm Power and Employment in Asia: Performance and Prospects. Edited by JOHN FARRINGTON, FREDERICK ABEYRATNE and GERARD J. GILL. Land 10 the Tiller: The Polirical Economy of Agrarian Reform in South Asia. By RONALD J. HEKKING. The Political Economy of Euro ean Trade: An Introduction to the Trade Policies of the EEC. By R. C. HINE. Poor Labouring Men: Rural Radicalism in Norfolk 1870–1923. By ALUN HOWKINS. Miners, Peasants and Entrepreneurs: Regional Development in the Central Highlands of Peru. Pioneers in Development. Edited by GERALD M. MEIER and DUDLEY SEERS. Coffee: The International Commodity Agreements. By JAMES MWANDHA, JOHN NICHOLLS and MALCOLM SARGENT. Rural Development in China. By DWIGHT PERKINS and SHAHID YUSUF. Circulation in Third World Countries. Edited by R. MANSELL PROTHERO and MURRAY CHAPMAN. Peasant Mobility: The Odds of Life in Rural Bangladesh. By WILLEM VAN SCHENDEL. A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Villa e. By BETSEY HARTMANN and JAMES K. BOYCE.