Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Weed Control Economics. By B. A. Auld , K. M. Menz and C. A. Tisdell . Rural Russia under the New Regime. By V. P. Danilov , The Economics of Agricultural Policies. By B. L. Gardner . The Global Forest Sector: An Analytical Perspective. Edited by M. Kallio , D. Dykstra and C. Binkley . The Economics of Afforestation: A Case Study in Africa. By D. Anderson . Economic Efficiency in Agricultural and Food Marketing. Edited by R. L. Kilmer and W. J. Armbruster . The Law of the Land: Two Hundred Years of American Farmland Policy. By J. Opie . Peasants and Classes: A Study in Differentiation in Bangladesh. By A. Rahman . Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Agricultural Growth in Bangladesh and West Bengal. By J. K. Boyce . Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions. By M. Redclift . The Food Consumer. Edited by C. Ritson , L. Gofton and J. Mc Kenzie . This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for Britain's Countryside. By M. Shoard . Software Review: RMTCM: Rocky Mountain Station Travel Cost Model: Available from Dennis M. Donnelly,     

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Book reviewed in this article: Aggregate Supply Response of Crops in a Developing Region. By S. L. Bapna. Sultan Chand & Sons, Land Use and Living Space. By Robin H. Best. Methuen, Population and Technology. By ESTER Boserup. Innovation Diffusion: A New Perspective. By Lawrence A. Brown. Methuen, Science and Agricultural Development. Edited by Lawrence Busch . Data Collection in Developing Countries. By D. J. Casley and D. A. Lury . The Economic Theory of Agricultural Land Tenure. By J. M. Currie . Marketing Behaviour: Issues in Managerial and Buyer Decision-Making. By Gordon Foxall . Manufacturing Green Gold: Capital, Labor and Technology in the Lettuce Industry. By W. H. Friedland , A. E. Barton and R. J. Thomas . Rural Employment: Trends, Options, Choices. By Ian Hodge and Martin Whitby . Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Economy. By Claude Meillassoux . Maidens, Meal and Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Economy. By Claude Meillassoux . Implications of Tractorisation for Farm Employment, Productivity and Income (volumes I and II). Performance of Futures Markets: The Case of Potatoes. By A. B. Paul , K. H. Kahl and W. G. Tomek . Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. By Amartya Sen . Biological Efficiency in Agriculture. By C. R. W. Spedding , J. M. Walsingham and A. M. Hoxey .     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Alexandra, N.(ed.) (1988). World Agriculture Towards 2000: An FAO Study Chambers, R. G. (1988). Applied Production Analysis: A Dual Approach Colman, D. and Young, T. (1989). Principles of Agricultural Economics: Markets and Prices in Less Developed Countries Common, M. (1988). Environmental and Resource Economics: An Introduction Haney, W. G. and Knowles, J. B. (eds.) (1988). Women and Farming: Changing Roles, Changing Structures Gasson, R. (1988). The Economics of Part-Time Farming Marks, H. F., edited by Britton, D. K. (1989). A Hundred Years of British Food and Farming: A Statistical Survey Pinstrup-Andersen, P. (ed.) (1988). Food Subsidies in Developing Countries: Costs, Benefits and Policy Options Raikes, P. (1988). Modernising Hunger: Famine, Food Surplus and Farm Policy in the EEC and Africa Spahni, P. (1988). The Common Wine Policy and Price Stabilization Stevens, R. D. and Jabara, C. L. (1988). Agricultural Development Principles: Economic Theory and Empirical Evidence Usher, J. A. (1988). Legal Aspects of Agriculture in the European Community Spedding, C. R. W. (1988). An Introduction to Agricultural Systems Tracy, M. (1989). Government and Agriculture in Western Europe 1880–1988 Harrison, A. with Tranter, R. B. (1989). The Changing Financial Structure of Farming Jones, D. (1989). Financial Vulnerability in Farming: A Study of North West Farms Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (1989). Agricultural and Environmental Policies — Opportunities for Integration Foreman, S. (1989). Loaves and Fishes: An Illustrated History of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 1889–1989     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: A. Viton The International Sugar Agreements: Promise and Reality M.D. Ingco and A. L. Winters (eds) Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda: Creating a Global Trading Environment for Development M.E. Lien and B. Nerlich (eds) The Politics of Food VITON, A. (2004). The International Sugar Agreements: Promise and Reality. INGCO, M. D. and WINTERS, A. L. (eds) (2004). Agriculture and the New Trade Agenda: Creating a Global Trading Environment for Development LIEN, M.E. and NERLICH, B (Eds) (2004). The Politics of Food.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: AMIR , P. and KNIPSCHEER , H. C. (1989). Conducting On-Farm Animal Research: Procedures and Economic Analysis. >ATKIN , M. (1989). Agricultural Commodity Markets: A Guide to Futures Trading. BUCKETT , M. (1988). An Introduction to Farm Organisation and Management. 2nd Edition. HILL , B. (1989). Farm Incomes, Wealth and Agricultural Policy OECD (1989). Aquaculture: A Review of Recent Experience. SPEDDING , C. R. W. (ed.) (1989). The Human Food Chain. B TRAILL , B. (ed.) (1989). Prospects for the European Food System. A Report from the FAST Programme of the Community of the EC. BECKETT , J. V. (1990). The Agricultural Revolution. BRIEN , R. J. (1989). The Shaping of Scotland: Eighteenth Century Patterns of Land Use and Settlement. RAVNKILDE , K. (1989). From Fettered to Free: The Farmer in Denmark's History. Hurst (Berks.): BROWN , J. (1987). Agriculture in England: A Survey of Farming 1870–1947. Brief Notes: ABBOTT , M. (1990). Combinable Crops and the EEC: Brief Notes: ARKLETON RESEARCH (1990). Brief Notes: BARGHOUTI , S., TIMMER , C. and SIEGEL , Brief Notes: WORLD BANK (1990). Agricultural Diversification: Policies and Issues from East Asian Experience. Brief Notes: BARKER , J. (1990). Agricultural Marketing Brief Notes: BURRELL , A., HILL , B. and MEDLAND , J. (1990) Brief Notes: HILL , B. (1990). An Introduction to Economics for Students of Agriculture (Second Edition). Brief Notes: INTAL , P. S. and POWER , J. H. (1990). Trade, Exchange Rate, and Agricultural Pricing Policies in the Philippines. World Bank Comparative Studies: The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy. Washington: World Bank. 400 pages. ISB N 0–8213-1496-3. 23.95. Brief Notes: MILLER , F. A. (ed.) (1990). Food Safety in the Human Food Chain.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Natural Resource Economics: Conservation and Exploitation. By PHILIP A. NEHER Geography and Trade, By PAUL KRUGMAN Disarray in World Food Markets: A Quantitative Assessment. By ROD TYERS and KYM ANDERSON Legumes: The Australian Experience. By B. R. DAVIDSON and H. F. DAVIDSON     

Reviews

Barrett, A., Lawlor, J. and Scott, S. The Fiscal System and the Polluter Pays Principle. A Case Study of Ireland Eyzaguirre, P. (1996). Agricultural and Environmental Research in Small Countries: Innovative Approaches to Strategic Planning, John Wiley & Sons Hanley, N. And Folmer, H. (EDS.) (1998). Game Theory and the Environment. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Matthews, A. (2000). Farm Incomes: Myths and Reality. Cork: Cork University Press Short, B., Watkins, C., Foot, W. and Kinsman, P. (1999). The National Farm Survey 1941–1943: State Surveillance and the Countryside in England and Wales in the Second World War.     

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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 .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Disarray in World Food Markets: A Quantitative Assessment. By ROD TYERS and KYM ANDERSON More People, Less Erosion: Environmental Recovery in Kenya. By MARY TIFFINM ICHAELM ORTIMORaEn d FRANCIS GICHUHI Sustainable Agriculture, By the STANDINCGO MMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Report of the Working Group on Sustainable Agriculture, SCA Technical Report Series-No. 36 Food and Agriculture in a Market Economy. By MICHAEL TRAC Krugman, Paul (1991), Geography and Trade, Leuven University Press. Natural Resource Economics: Conservation and Exploitation. By PHILIP A. NEHER. Agricultural and Environmental Resource Economics. By GERALD A. CARLSON, DAVID ZILBERMAN and JOHN A. MIRANOWSKI     

BOOK REVIEWS

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: Patterns of Poverty in the Third World. By Charles Elliott. Praeger Special Studies, Martin Robertson, London The Assault on World Poverty— problems of rural development, education and health. By The World Bank The Nature of Poverty: A Case-history of the First Quarter-Century after World War II. By Margaret Haswell Pastoralism in Tropical Africa. Edited by T. Monod. Oxford University Press for International African Institute Cocoa, Custom and Socio-Economic Change in Rural Western Nigeria. By Sara S. Berry Supply Responses of Primary Producers. By David Lim. University of Malaya Press Recreation in the Countryside: A Spatial Analysis. By J. T. Coppock and B. S. Duffield. Macmillan, London The Dynamic Structure of Household Expenditure in the Federal Republic of Germany: Analysis and Projection 1955-69/71 and 1975/77. By H. G. L. Gollnick. North-Holland, Amsterdam U.S. Agriculture In a World Context: Policies and Approaches for the Next Decade. Edited by D. Gale Johnson and John A. Schnittker From the St. Croix to the Potomac. By Sherman E. Johnson. Montana State University     

BRIEF NOTES

OECD (1988). New Trends in Rural Policymaking World Bank (1988). Rural Development: World Bank Experience 1965–86 OECD (1988). Agricultural Policies, Markets and Trade OECD (1988). National Policies and Agricultural Trade. Country Study: Sweden Roberts, C. (ed.) (1988). Trade, Aid and Policy Reform. Proceedings of the Eighth Agriculture Sector Symposium Zietz, J. and Valdes, A. (1988). Agriculture in the GATT: An Analysis of Alternative Approaches to Reform Hillman, J. S. and Rothenberg, R. A. (1988). Agricultural Trade and Protection in Japan Fitchett, D. A. (1988). Agricultural Trade Protectionism in Japan: A Survey     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Man's Proper Study: A History of Agricultural Science Education in Aberystwyth 1878–1978. By Richard Colyer. The Business of Farming. By David Johnson. Wages and Employment in Agriculture: England and Wales, 1960–80. By P. J. Lund, T. G. Morris, J. D. Temple and J. M. Watson. Selfishness, Altruism and Rationality. By Howard Margolis. Agricultural Research and Technology in Economic Development. By Per Pinstrup-Andersen. Measurement of Agricultural Protection. By John Strak. Agriculture in Western Europe: Challenge and Response 1880–1980 (2nd edition). By Michael Tracy. Agrarian Policies in Communist Europe: Volume 1—A Critical Introduction. By Karl-Eugen Wadekin. Financial Management for Farmers. By Martyn F. Warren.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Analysis of Future Agricultural Change: A Farm Economics Approach Applied to Dutch Arable Farming. By G. A. A. Wossink. The Farming Game Now. By J. P. Makeham and L. R. Malcolm Commodity Price Stabilisation. By C. O'Donnell Aid to African Agriculture. By Uma Lele     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Anaman, K. A. (1988). African Farm Management: Principles and Applications with Examples. Grigg, D. (1989). English Agriculture — An Historical Perspective. Blunden, J. and Curry, N. (1988). A Future for our Countryside. HEDLUND , S. (1989). Private Agriculture in the Soviet Union. HITIRIS , T. (1988). European Community Economics. HOLLINGHAM , M. A. and HOWARTH , R. W. (1989). British Milk Marketing and the Common Agricultural Policy: The Origins of Confusion and Crisis. LIPTON , M. with LONGHURST , R. (1989). New Seeds and Poor People. PADMANABHAN , K. P. (1988). Rural Credit: Lessons for Rural Bankers and Policy Makers. PRICE , C. (1989). The Theory and Application of Forest Economics.. Brief Notes: BENNETT , R. M. (ed.) (1989). Brief Notes: GREENSHIELDS , B. and BELLAMY , Brief Notes: RAEBURN , J. R. and JONES Brief Notes: WHITBY , M. C. and DAWSON , P. J. (eds.) Brief Notes: WHITBY , M., ROWLINSON , P., TOPHAM , M. and YOUNGER     

REVIEWS

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     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: A Shared Harvest: The Australian Wheat Industry, 1939- 1989. By GREG WHITWELL AND DIANE SYDENHAM Use with Care: Managing Australia's Natural Resources in the TWenty-First Century. By DOUG COCKS An Agricultural Policy for the UK. By M.P. BURTON Protecting Markets: U.S. Policy and the World Grain Dude. By RONALD T. LIBBY Planned Change in Farming Systems: Progress in On-Farm Research. By ROBERT TRIPP Greening a Brown Land: the Australian Search for Sustainable Land Use. By NEIL BARR A ND JOHN CARY Issues in the Pricing and Management of Natural Resources 1991     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Marketing Beef in Japan. By WILLIAM A. KERR KURT K. KLEIN, JILL E. HOBBS and MASARU KAGATSUM. The Future Eaters: an Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People. By T. FLANNER The Economics of Agriculture: Volume I, Selected Papers of D Gale Johnson; Volume II, Papers in Honor of D Gale Johnson. Edited by JOHN M. ANTLE and DANIEL A. SUMNER Salinisation of Land and Water Resources. By F. GHASSEMI, A.J. JAKEMAN and H.A. NIX     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Preventing Famine: Policies and Prospects for Africa. By D. Curtis, M. Hubbard and A. Shepherd Articulated Agricultural Development: Traditional and Capitalist Agricultures in Papua New Guinea. By M. Donaldson and K. Good. Aldershot The Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community: Its Institutional and Administrative Organisation. (2nd edition). By R. Fennell Disease in Farm Livestock: Economics and Policy. Edited by K. S. Howe and J. P. McInerney Agricultural Price Policy for Developing Countries. Edited by J. Mellor and R. Ahmed Appraisal of Projects in Developing Countries: A Guide for Economists. (3rd edition). Overseas Development Administration Europe's Domestic Market. By J. Pelkmans and A. Winters Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Volume XXIII: Agriculture. By G. H. Peters Agricultural Policy Formation in the European Community: The Birth of Milk Quotas and CAP Reform. By M. Petit, M. de Benedictis, D. Britton, M. de Groot, W. Henrichsmeyer and F. Lechi Culture and Context in Sudan: The Process of Market Incorporation in Dar Masalit. By D. Tully. Modelling a Multiple Output Production System: Supply Response in the Australian Sheep Industry. By C. Wall and B. Fisher     

Reviews

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 .