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Book reviewed in this article: Brouwer, F. M. and van Berkum, S. (1996). CAP and Environment in the European Union: Analysis of the Effects of CAP on the Environment and an Assessment of Existing Environmental Conditions in Policy Smith, L. D. and Spooner, N. (1996). Cereals Sector Reform in the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe Thiesenhusen, W. C. (1995). Broken Promises: Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino     

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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: Atkin, M. (1993). Snouts in the Trough: European Farmers, the Common Agricultural Policy and the Public Purse. Bassett , T. J. and Crummey , D. E. (eds.) (1993). Land in African Agrarian Systems. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. D'Antonio , W. V., Sasaki , M. and Yonebayashi , Y. (eds.) (1994). Ecology, Society and the Quality of Social Life. Gibbon , P., Havnevik , K. J. and Hermele , K. (1993). Blighted Harvest- The World Bank and African Agriculture in the 1980s. London: James Currey Ltd and New Jersey: Africa World Press. Hamdar , B. C. (1993). The Relationship Between Agricultural Policy and Forestry in the Southern Region of the United States. Hoff , K., Braverman , A. and Stiglitz , J. (eds.) (1993). The Economics of Rural Organisation: Mac Arthur , J. D. and Weiss , J. (eds.) (1994). Mori , H. and Lin , B-H. (1994). Japanese Beef Market: Distinctly Unique. Senshu University Press. Taylor , C. R., Reichelderfer , K. H. and Johnson , S. R. (eds.) (1993).     

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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: 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: VAN DEN Ban , A. W. and Hawkins , H. S. (1988). Colman , D. and Lee , Cooper , A. F. (1989). British Agricultural Policy 1912-36: A Study in Conservative Politics. Dooney , S. (1988). Irish Agriculture: Lee , R. D., Arthur , W. B., Kelley , A. C., Rodgers , G., and Srinivasan , T. N. (eds.) (1988). Nadkarni , M. V. with Syed Ajmal Pasha and Prabhakar , L. S. (1989). Repetto , R. and Gillis , M. (eds.) (1988). Public Policies and the Misuse of Forest Resources. Sagoff , M. (1988). The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law and the Environment. Tarditi , S., Thomson , K. J., Pierani , P. and Croci -Angelini , E. (eds.) (1989). Brief Note: Anderson , J. R. and Hazell , P. B. R. (eds.) (1989). Variability in Grain Yields: Implications for Agricultural Research and Policy in Developing Countries. Brief Note: Crittenden , R. and Lea , D. A. M. (1989). Integrated Rural Development Programmes in Papua New Guinea. Brief Note: Longworth , J. W. (ed.) (1989). China's Rural Development Miracle, With International Comparisons. Brief Note: OECD (1989). Agricultural Policies, Markets and Trade: Monitoring and Outlook 1989.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricuhre and Economic Growth in England 1650–1815. Edited by E. L. JONES. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. New York. Barnes & Noble Inc. xi+ 193 pages. 1967. Price 25s. The Agriculturul Revolution. By ERIC KERRIDCE. George Allen and Unwin. 1967.428 pages. Bibliography. Price 84s. Farm Accounting and Management. (Fifth Edition). By FORD STURROCK. Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., London. 1967. xi+226 pages. Price 27s. 6d. Aspects of Dairy Economics 1962–1965. Edited by V. H. BEYNON. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. H.M.S.O., London. 1967. 58 pages, including Bibliography. Price 6s. Od. French und E.E.C. Gruin Policies und Their Price Egrets, 1920–1970: By HELEN C. FARNSWORTH and KAREN J. FRIEDMANN. Food Research Institute Studies, Vol. VII. No. 1 Themes in Econorrtic Anthropology. Edited by RAYMOND FIRTH. London: Tavistock Publications. New York: Barnes and Noble. 1967. xi+292 pages. Price 45s. The Pesticide Probleiii: An Economic Approach to Public Policy. By J. C. HEADLEY and J. N. LEWIS Loiidwirtschaftliche Marktforschrrng iii Deutschland. Editor: GUNTHER SCHMITT. Bayerischer Landwirtschaftsverlag, Munchen, Basel, Wien. 1967. 339 pages. Price DM.49. The Story of Tobacco in America. By JOSEPH C. ROBERT. The University of North Carolina Press, 1967. xviii +282 pages. Bibliographical Notes. Price 48s. Conflict and Decision-Making in Soviet Riissia. A Case Study of Agricultural Policy 1953–1963. By SIDNEY PLOSS     

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Book reviewed in this article: Gaull , G. E. and Goldberg , R. A. (eds.) (1993) Geping , Q. and JINCHANG, L. Murray, M. and Greer, J. (eds.) (1993). Rural Development in Ireland. Aldershot: Avebury (Gower). BRIEF NOTES: Cook , E. and Hill , BRIEF NOTES: Desai , B. M. and Mellor , J. W. (1993). BRIEF NOTES: Kettunen , L. and Niemi , J. (1994). BRIEF NOTES: OECD (1994). Agricultural Policies, Markets and Trade: Monitoring and Outlook 1994. BRIEF NOTES: Richards , S. (1993). Wye College and its World: A Centenary History.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Statistics for the Social Scientist: Vol. I Introducing Statistics, Vol. 11 Applied Statistics. By K. A. YEOMAN Agrarmarkrpolitik, Band I Grundlagen. By RODERICH PLATE Agricultural Development: Planning and Implementation (Israel Case Study). By RAANAN WEITZ and AVSHALOM ROKACH Economic Development in the Tropics. By B. W. HODDE Allocative Eficiency in Economic Development. By P. A. YOTOPOULOS Mobility of Farm Families-a study of occupational and residential mobility in an upland area of England. By J. S. NALSON Forest Planning. By D. R. JOHNSTON, A. J. GRAYSON and R. T. BRADLEY Milk Production and Marketing in the Tropics-A case study based on Khartoum Province, Sudan. By M. SIMPSON and A. R. EL-HADARI Agriculture in the Congo Basin. By MARVIN P. MIRACLE. Food, Farmingand the Common Marker. By MICHAEL BUITERWICK and EDMUND NEVILLE ROLE.     

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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 .     

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Book reviewed in this article: National Farmers' Union (1998). Farming Economy 1998: Is UK Agriculture Competitive? A European Perspective. Pearson, S., Monke, E., Argwings-Kodhek, G., Avillez, F., Mukumbu, M., Pagiola, S., Sellen, D. and Winter-Nelson, A. (1995). Peet, R. and Watts, M. (eds.) (1996). Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements. Sanders, J. H., Shapiro, B. I and Ramaswamy, S. (1996). The Economics of Agricultural Technology in Semi-arid Sub-Saharan Africa. Sereni, E. (1997). History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape (translated with an introduction by R. Burr Litchfield). Swinnen, J. F. M. (1997). Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Central and Eastern Europe.     

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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: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference of Agricultural Economists. By THE INSTITUTE OF AGRARIAN AFFAIRS Isolated State. By JOHANN HEINRICH VON THÜNEN. Translated by Carla M. Wartenberg Land Use Information. A critical survey of U.S. Statistics including possibilities for greater uniformity. By MARION CLAWSON with CHARLES L. STEWART An Agricultural Geography of Great Britain. By D. W. GILCHRIST SHIRLAW Geography of Population. By J. BEAUJEU-GARNIER The Unification of the World: Proposals of a Diplomatist. By PAUL DE HEVESY Estate Villages. A Historical Study of the Berkshire Villages of Ardington and Lockinge. By M. A. HAVINDEN with D. S. THORNTON and P. D. WOOD The Economy of the Israeli Kibbutz. By ELIYAHU KANOVSKY. Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs XIII Governing Soil Conservation: Thirty Years of the New Decentralization. By ROBERT J. MORGAN Studies in Utilization of Agricultural Land. By D. S. CHAUHAN Land Reclamation in Kerala. By V. R. PILLAI and P. G. K. PANIKAR The Indian Rural Problem. By SIR MANILAL B. NANAVATI and SHRI J. J. ANJARIA The Role of Agriculture, in Economic Development. A Case Study of Pakistan. By MAHMOOD HASAN KHAN Agriculture and Nigerian Economic Development. By H. A. OLUWASANMI Food and Agriculture in Communist China. By J. LOSSING BUCK, OWEN L. DAWSON and YUAN-LI WU The Production and Marketing of Pigs. Third Edition. By H. R. DAVIDSON Les Facteurs d'Evolution de la Commercialisation des Produits Agricoles en France. By HUBERT ROUSSEAU Avenir de l'Economie Fruitière. Tome 1. Produire et Vendre. By P. MAINIÉ Politique de Financement et Choix des Investissements. By P. MAINIÉ, B. VILLAIN and J. FONTAINE     

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Book reviewed in this article: Economic Analysis of Projects. By Lyn Squire and H. G. van der Tak We Plough the Fields: Agriculture in Britain Today. By Tristram Beresford Review of Agricultural Policies— General Survey. Agricultural Policy Reports, O.E.C.D., Paris Land Concentration and Rural Poverty. By Keith Griffin . Macmillan, London Coke of Norfolk: A Financial and Agricultural Study, 1707–1842. By R. A. C. Parker     

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Book reviewed in this article: Individual Freedom and the Economic Organisation of Agriculture. By Harold F. Breimyer The City Man's Guide to the Farm Problem. By Willard W. Cochrane Scarcity and Growth. By H. J. Barnett and Chandler Morse Soil Conservation in Perspective. By R. B. Held and M. Clawson The Earth Can Feed Us. By Hugo Osvald Land and Labor in Europe in the Twentieth Century. By Folke Dovring British Agricultural Marketing: a study in government policy. By V. S. Patvardhan The Agricultural Revolution 1750–1880. By J. D. Chambers and G. E. Mingay People in the Countryside: Studies in rural social development. Edited by John Higgs Agrarkrisen und Agrarkonjunktur. By Wilhelm Abel Agricultural Production Functions, Cost and Returns in India. By C. H. Hanumantha Rao Der Funktionelle Ablauf im Landwirtschaftlichen Betrieb. By Horst Seuster Foreign Agricultural Trade: Selected Readings. Edited by Robert L. Tontz Capital Formation in Indian Agriculture. By Tara Shukla Analysis and Assessment of the Economic Effects of the U.S. PL 480 Program in Greece. By G. Contsoumaris (Project Director) et al. A Hundred Years of Pastoral Banking: a history of the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company. By J. D. Bailey     

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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: Agricultural Development: An internutionul Perspective. By YURIKO HAYAMI and VERNON RUTTAN. John Hopkins Investment in Huniun Capital: The Role of Educurioti and of Research. By THEODORE SCHULTZ Agricultural Marketing in A jricu. By E. H. WHETHAM. Oxford University Press. Fuctor Pricing unrl Economic Growth in Underdeveloped Rurul Arrus. By Amtiow BOTYOMLEY Food Gruin Murketing in India Private Prrfornrance attd Public Policy. By UMA J. LELE Guutetirulu's Econoniic Development: The Role Agriculture. By L. B. FLETCHER The Awkward Class - Political Sociology Peasantry in a Developing Society: Russiu, 1910–1925. By TEODOR SHANIN Lahoitrers and Landowners in Southern Spain. By JUAN MARTINEZ-ALIER. St. Antony's College Publications No. 4. George Allen & Unwin The Remoter Rural Areas of Britain. Edited by J. ASHTON and W. HARWOOD LONG. Oliver and Boyd The Idle Hill: A Prospect for Young Workers in a Rurul Area. By SUSAN HALE Fertilizing for Maximum Yield. By G. W. COOKE. Crosby Lockwood Tlte Impact on US. Agricultitrul Tmde of the Accession of ihe Uniied King- dom, Ireland, Denmark and Norway to the European Economic Com- niuniiy. By JOHN FERRIS     

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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:
Reviews: Progress and Prospects: A Review Article: David L. MACFARLANE
The National Policy And The Wheat Economy by V. C. Fowke.
Fifty Years Of Farm Management by H. C. M. Case & D. B. Williams.
Tobacco Farming and Marketing In Quebec: An Economic Enquiry, by William E. Haviland.
The Development of Producer Marketing Boards in Canadian Agriculture by L. E. Poetschke and Wm. MacKenzie.
Marketing Boards Under Provincial Legislation, Canada, 1957 by Margaret I. Dunbabin and W. E. Walker,
Agricultural Marketing In India Voi. 1 by K. R. Kulkarni.
Rapport du Comité d'Enquěte     

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Book reviewed in this article: Economic Change and Agriculture. An Agricultural Adjustment Unit Symposium. Agriculture in the Australian Economy. Commons and Village Greens.–a study in land use, conservation and management based on a national survey of commons in England and Wales 1961–1966, financed by the Nuffield Foundation. Co-operation, Land Reform and Land Settlement–Report on a survey in Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ghana, Nigeria and Iran. Glimpses of Co-operative Farming in India. Obstacles to Develooment. Agricultural Development and Economic Growth. Economic Aspects of Low Labour-Income Farming. Smallholder Farming and Smallholder Development in Tanzania. The Food Problem of Developing Countries. Linear Programming and Animal Nutrition.