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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Marketing Enterprises for the Developing World. By J. C. Abbott . Farm Woodland Management. By J. Blyth , J. Evans , W. Mutch and C. Sidwell Who from their Labours Rest? Conflict and Practice in Rural Tourism. Edited by M. Bouquet and M. Winter . Agriculture in England: A Survey of Farming, 1870–1947. By J. Brown . Poverty, Development and Food: Essays in honour of H. W. Singer on his 75th Birthday. Edited by E. Clay and J. Shaw International Yearbook of Rural Planning: Volume 1, 1987. Edited by A. Gilg , O. Furuseth , R. Dilley and C. Potter . Diversifying the Farm Business: A Practical Guide to the Opportunities and Constraints. By M. Haines and R. Davies . Economics for Agriculture: Food, Farming and the Rural Economy. By B. Hill and D. Ray . Rural Development: A Geographical Perspective. By K. Hoggart and H. Buller . Rural Bangladesh: Competition for Scarce Resources. By E. G. Jansen . Smallholdings under Pressure: A Review of the Cambridgeshire County Farms Estate. By H. Laxton , I. Hodge and G. Davidson . Rural Housing in Scotland: Recent Research and Past Policy. Edited by B. D. Mac Gregor , D. Robertson and M. Shucksmith . Land Reform and Democratic Government. By R. L. Prosterman and J. M. Riedinger . African Farm Management. By M. Upton .     

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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: The Ecology of Agricultural Systems. By T. P. Bayliss-Smith. Of Time and the Enterprise: North American Family Farm Management in a Context of Resource Marginality. By John W. Bennett. Agriculture: The Triumph and the Shame. By Richard Body. Rural Policy Problems: Changing Dimensions. Edited by W. P. Browne and D. F. Hadwiger. Managing Agricultural Systems. By G. E. Dalton. Ireland: Land, Politics and People. Edited by P. J. Drudy. Growth and Equality in Rural China. By Keith Griffin and Ashwani Saith. An Introduction to Farming Systems. By Michael Haines. Rural Development: Theories of Peasant Economy and Agrarian Change. Edited by John Harriss. Irrigation Economics in Poor Countries. By Arthur Hazlewood and Ian Livingston. Workshop on Forecasting Milk Supplies. Applied Welfare Economics and Public Policy. By Richard Just, Darrell Hueth and Andrew Schmitz. Agricultural Research Policy. By Vernon W. Ruttan.     

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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: Struggle for the North. By J. H. Kelly. Probability and Profit: A Study of Economic Behaviour along Bayesian Lines. By W. Fellne New Guinea on the Threshold: Aspects of Social, Political and Economic Development. Edited by E. K. Fisk Accounting and Planning for Farm Management. Report of a Joint Committee on Standardization of Farm Accounting. Farm Accounting in New Zealand (with Supplement) Principles and Practice of Farm Management Accounting. By C. A. Mallyo Transforming Traditional Agriculture. By T. W. Schultz The Random Character of Stock Market Prices. Edited by P. H. Cootne Agricultural Education in Australia. By R. N. Farquhar     

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Book reviewed in this article: Land Reform and Economic Development. By PETER DORNER. Penguin Books. Controlled Environment Agriculture: A Global Review of Greenhouse Food Production. By DANA G. DALRYMPLE. U.S.D.A. Agricultural Expansion in the United Kingdom with Declining Manual Labour Resources. By A. P. POWER and S. A. HARRIS. Government Economic Service Principles of Farm Business Analysis and Management. By ROBERT O'CONNOR. Irish University Press Linear Programming Applications to Agriculture. By R. R. BENEKE and R. WINTERBOER. Iowa State University Press Financial Management in Agriculture. By JOHN A. HOPKINS, PETER J. BARRY and C. B. BAKER. Interstate Printers and Publishers, Danville, Illinois. Cost Factors of Agriculture. By K. N. SINGH et al. National Institute of Bank Management (India), Bombay. Agricultural Product Prices. By W. G. TOMEK and K. L. ROBINSON. Cornell University Press. Agricultural Marketing and Prices. By KEITH O. CAMPBELL. Cheshire, Melbourne. Natural Rubber and the Synthetics. By P. W. ALLEN. Crosby Lockwood, London. Technical Assistance Administration in East Africa. Edited by YASHPAL TANDON. The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, Stockholm. Joe Duncan - The Scottish Farm Servants and British Agriculture. By J. H. SMITH. Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Surveys of Australian Economics. Edited by F. H. Gruen Australia at the Crossroads: Our Choices to the Year 2000. By Wolfgang Kasper, Richard Blandy, John Freebairn, Douglas Hocking and Robert O'Neill. Coping with Change: Australian Farming since 1970. By J. P. Makeham, T. J. Christiansen and L. R. Malcolm. The Farmer as Manager. By Tony Giles and Malcolm Stans-field. Returns on Australian Agricultural Research. By J. S. Marsden, G. E. Martin, D. J. Parham, T. J. Ridsdill Smith and B. G. Johnston. Dynamic Agricultural Systems: Economic Prediction and Control. By Gordon C. Rausser and Eithan Hochman. Regional Economic Planning. By R. C. Jensen, T. D. Mandeville, and N. D. Karunaratne. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics. Edited by W. A. Geering, R. T. Roe and L. A. Chapman.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Role 01 Agriculture in Economic Development. Edited by E. THORBECKE The Farm Business. By L. NORMAN and R. B. COOTE. Longman, London Crop Production: Cereals and Legumes. By B. F. BLAND. Academic Press, London Taxing Personal Wealth - an analysis of capital taxation in the United King-dom - history, present structure and future possibilities. By C. T. SANDFORD A Theoretical Approach to Rural Land-Use Patterns. By WILLIAM C. FOUND. Edward Arnold Agricultural Geography. By W. B. MORGAN and R. J. C. MUNTON. Methuen. London Man and Land - the fundamental issue in development. By E. H. JACOBY with CHARLOTTE F. JACOBY. A Century of Russian Agriculture - from Alexander I1 to Krushchev. By LAZAR VOLIN The Soviet Rural Community. Edited by J. R. MILLAR Men versus Systems - agriculture in the U.S.S.R. Poland and Czechoslovakia. By ARTHUR E. ADAMS and JAN S. ADAMS Socio-Economic Results of Land Reform in Taiwan. By M. M. C. YANG. East-West Center Press Farming Systems in the Tropics. By H. RUTHENBERG. Clarendon Press Agricultural Development in Indiaapos;s Districts. By DORRIS D. BROWN. Harvard University Press Reference Materials and Periodicals in Economics: Volume I: Agriculture. By E. L. FLTNDABURK     

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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: Speculation, Hedging and Commodity Price Forecasts. By W. C. Labys and C. W. J. Granges Fields of Conflict in European Farm Policy. By Hermann Priebe, Denis Bergmann and Jan Horring The Common Market and World Agriculture— Trade Patterns in Temperate-Zone Foodstuffs. By Francis Knox Systems Analysis in Agricultural Management. Edited by J. B. Dent and J. R. Anderson. John Wiley Wells and Welfare. By Deepak Lal An Appraisal of Tea Production on Smallholdings in Kenya. By N. H. Stern Change and Uncertainty in a Peasant Economy. The Maya Corn Farmers of Zinacantan. By Frank Cancian. Stanford University Press Basic Concepts of Rural Sociology. By Boguslaw Galeski. xvi + 209 pages Farming and Food Supply. The Interdependence of Countryside and Town. By Sir Joseph Hutchinson. Cambridge University Press     

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Book reviewed in this article: Poverty and Progress: An Ecological Model of Economic Development. By R. G. WILKINSON Land Use and Water Resources. By H. C. PEREIRA Farm Management in Africa - the principles of production and planning. By MARTIN UPTON The Common Agricultural Policy and Britain. Edited by S. J. ROGERS and B. H. DAVEY. The Agricultural Adjustment Unit Agriculture and the Common Market. By STANLEY ANDREWS The Private Sector in Soviet Agriculture. By KARL-EUGEN WÄDEKIN (edited by George Karcz. Enlarged and revised edition of Privatproduzenten in der sowjetischen Landwirtschaft translated by Keith Bush) Productivity Trends in a Sectoral Macro-Economic Model - a study of American agriculture and supporting industries, 1919–1964. By W. F. GOSSLING Operations Research Methods for Agricultural Decisions. By R. C. AGRAWAL and E. O. HEADY Agricultural Projection Techniques. O.E.C.D. Soybeans and Their Products - markets, models and policy. By J. P. HOUCK, M. E. RYAN and A. SUBOTNIK The Classical Tradition in West European Farming. By G. E. FUSSELL, David & Charles British Agriculture, 1875–1914. Edited by P. J. PERRY. Methuen     

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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: 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.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Understanding Green Revolutions: Agrarian Change and Development Planning in South Asia. Edited by TIM-BAYLTSS-SMITH and SUDHTR WANMALIC Family, Servants and Vkitors: The Farm Household in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Devon. By MARY BOUQUET Food Economics. By ANNAB URGERA The Economics of Coffce. By J de GRAFF Agricultural Gco ra hy:A Social and Economic Analysis. By BRIAN W. ILBERY Countryside Conjlicrs: The Politics of Farming, Forestry and Conservation. By PHILIP LOWE Food Policy: Frameworks for Analysis and Action. Edited by CHARLES K. MANN and BARBARA HUDDLESTON Agricultural Change and Rural Poverty: Variations on a Theme by Dharm Narain. Edited by JOHN W. MELLOR and GUNVANT M. DESAI     

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Book reviewed in this article: Seasonal Dimensions to Rural Poverty. Edited by Robert Chambers , Richard Longhurst and Arnold Pacey . The Effects of Tax Policy on American Agriculture. By Charles Dport , Michael Boehlje and David Martin . European Farming in Australia: An Economic History of Australian Farming. By Bruce R. Davidson . Australian Agriculture: Reconciling Change and Tradition. By Keith O. Campbell . India's Export Performance. By K. S. Dhindsa . Marxism and the Agrarian Question: volume 1, German Social Democracy and the Peasantry 1890–1907; volume 2, Russian Marxism and the Peasantry 1861–1930. By Athar Hussain and Keith Tribe From Peasant to Proletarian: Capitalist Development and Agrarian Transitions. By David Goodman and Michael Redclift . National Parks. Conservation or Cosmetics? By Ann and Malcolm Mac Ewen . The Economy of Rural Communities in the National Parks of England and Wales. By Tourism and Recreation Research Unit . Agriculture and the European Community. By John S. Marsh and Pamela J. Swanney . The Common Agricultural Policy: Prospects for Change. By Joan Pearce . Options for Farm Policy in the European Community. By T. E. Josling , Mark Langworthy and Scott Pearson . The Theory of Commodity Price Stabilisation: A Study in the Economics of Risk. By David Newbery and Joseph Stiglitz Food Policy. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Food and Agricultural Policy for the 1980s. Edited by D. Gale Johnson . Small Farmers' Development Programme. By S. M. Pandey and J. S. Sodhi . Rice in West Africa: Policy and Economics. By S. R. Pearson , J. D. Stryker and C. P. Humphreys . Grain Export Cartels. By Andrew Schmitz , Alex F. McCalla , Donald O. Mitchell and Colin A. Carter . Science and Technology Policy: Priorities of Governments. By C. A. Tisdell . Co-operatives and Development. Agricultural Politics in Ghana and Uganda. By Crawford Young , Neal Sherman and Tim Rose .     

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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: CAMPBELL, B. M. S. and OVERTON, M. (eds.) (1991). Land, Labour and Livestock: Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity CHAMPION, T. and WATKINS, C. (eds.) (1991). People in the Countryside: Studies of Social Change in Rural Britain DOORNBOS, F., VAN DORSTEN, F., MITRA, M. and TERHAL, P. (1990). Dairy Aid and Development: India's Operation Flood. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives, Volume 3 DOORNBOS, M. and NAIR, K. N. (eds.) (1990). Resources, Institutions and Strategies: Operation Flood and Indian Dairying. Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives, Volume 4 GRANT, W. (1991). The Dairy Industry: An International Comparison MARSDEN, T. and LITTLE, J. (eds.) (1990). Political, Social and Economic Perspectives on the International Food System MARSH, J., GREEN, B., KEARNEY, B., MAHE, L., TANGERMANN, S. and TARDITI, S. (1991). The Changing Role of the Common Agricultural Policy: The Future of Farming in Europe NISBET, E. G. (1991). Leaving Eden: To Protect and Manage the Earth SIMON, J. L. (1989). Population Matters: Resources, Environment and Irrigation SMITH, M. J. (1990). The Politics of Agricultural Support in Britain. Aldershot: Dartmouth/Gower ANDERSON, K. and TYERS, R. (1991). Global Effects of Liberalising Trade in Farm Products. Trade Policy Research Centre, Thames Essay No. 55 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF READING (1991). Management Matters in 1991. Study No. 26 ERRINGTON, A. and TRANTER, R. (1991). Getting Out of Farming? Part Two: The Farmers. Study No. 27. Department of Agriculture and Department of Agricultural Economics and Management GASSON, R. and HILL, G. P. (1990). An Economic Evaluation of the Farm Woodland Scheme. FBU Occasional Paper No. 17. Ashford: Farm Business Unit, Department of Agricultural Economics HAVERKORT, B., VAN DER KAMP, J. and WALTERS-BAYER, A. (eds.) (1991). Joining Farmers' Experiments: Experiences in Participatory Technology Development HUDSON, R. J.? DREW, K. R. and BASKIN, L. M. (eds.) (1989). Wildlife Production Systems: Economic Utilisation of Wild Ungulates. Cambridge Studies in Applied Ecology and Resource Management HYDE, W. F. and NEWMAN, D. H. (1991). Forest Economics and Policy Analysis: An Overview. World Bank Discussion Papers 134 JENKINS, T. N. (1990). Future Harvests: The Economics of Farming and the Environment: Proposals for Action. Report to the Council for the Protection of Rural England and the World-Wide Fund for Nature (UK) ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (1991). The Apple Market in OECD Countries ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (1991). Changes in Cereals and Dairy Policies in OECD Countries: A Model-Based Analysis TEKLU, T., VON BRAUN, J. and ZAKI, E. (1991). Drought and Famine Relationships in Sudan: Policy Implications. Research Report 88. Washington: International Food Policy Research Institute WORLD BANK (1991). World Development Report 1991: The Challenge of Development     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agrarian Reform and Rural Poverty: A Case Study of Peru. By T. Alberts The Food Industry: Economics and Policies. Edited by Jim Burns, John McInerney and Alan Swinbank Agriculture, Poverty and Freedom in Developing Countries. By Eric Clayton An Empirical Study of Food Consumption in Rural and Urban Households of the Philippines. By Myrna C. de Vega and Brian S. Fisher Agrarian Policies and Rural Poverty in Africa. Edited by Dharam Ghai and Samir Radwan Agriculture in China's Modern Economic Development. By Nicholas R. Lardy Agrarian Policies and Institutions in China after Mao. By Azizur Rahman Khan and Eddy Lee A Wealth of Wild Species: Storehouse for Human Welfare. By Norman Myers A Review of the Common Agricultural Policy and the Implications of Modified Systems for Ireland. By R. O'Connor, C. Guiomard and J. Devereux Migration, Mechanization and Agricultural Labor Markets in Egypt. Edited by Alan Richards and Philip L. Martin Agriculture in the Twenty-first Century. Edited by John W. Rosenblum Technology and Social Change in Rural Areas. A Festschrift for Eugene A. Wilkening. Edited by Gene F. Summers Food Policy Analysis. By C. Peter Timmer, Walter P. Falcon and Scott R. Pearson     

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Book reviewed in this article: Selected Writings on Agricultural Policy and Economic Analysis. By FREDERICK V. WAUGH, JAMES P. HOUCK and MARTIN E. ABEL The Pastoral Industries in Australia: Practice and Technology of Sheep, Cattle, Goat and Deer Production. By G. ALEXANDER and 0. B. WILLIAMS Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution. By POLLY HILL The Economics of Tropical Farm Management. By J. P. MAKEHAM and L. R. MALCOL Farm Planning with Linear Programming: Concept and Practice. By J. B. DENT, S. R. HARRISON and K. B. WOODFORD.     

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Book reviewed in this article: National and Regional Self-sufficiency Goals — Implications for International Agriculture. By FRED J. RUPPEL, EARL D. KELLOGGan d LYNNE RIENNER(eds). Food Trends and the Changing Consumer. By BEN SENAUER, ELAINE ASP, and JEAN KINSEY. The Common Agricultural Policy and the World Economy: Essays in Honour of John Ashton. By CHRISTOPHER RITSON and DAVID HARVEY Agricultural Economics and Policy: International Challenges for the Nineties. Edited by K. Burger, M. De Groot, J. Post and V. Zacharias. Where Credit is Due: Income-Generating Programmes for the Poor in Developing Countries. By JOER EMENY Issues in the Pricing and Management of Natural Resources 1991. Farming and the Countryside: An Economic Analysis of External Costs and Benefits. Nick Hanley (ed.). World Agriculture in Disarray (Second Edition). By D.G. JOHNSO