BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Forestry, Agriculture and the Environment
Valuing Food Safety and Nutrition Julia A. Caswell
Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture Miguel A. Altieri
Achieving Diversity: The Status and Progress of Women and African Americans in the Agricultural Economics Profession Edited by Mary A. Marchant and Handy Williamson, Jr.     

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Book reviews in this article: BRITTON, D. K. (1990). Agriculture in Britain: Changing Pressures and Policies COHN, T. H. (1990). The International Politics of Agricultural Trade: Canadian - American Relations in a Global Agricultural Context. Vancouver SCHMITZ, A. (ed.) (1989). Free Trade and Agricultural Diversification - Canada and the United States PARIKH, A. (1990). The Economics of Fertiliser Use in Developing Countries - A Case Study in Bangladesh PILE, S. (1990). The Private Farmer: Transformation and Legitimation in Advanced Capitalist Agriculture VAN DER MEER, C. L. J. and YAMADA, S. (1990). Japanese Agriculture: A Comparative Economic Analysis WHATMORE, S. (1991). Farming Women: Gender, Work and Family Enterprise AMERENA, P. (1990). Agriculture and Natural Resources: A Manual for Development Workers CARRUTHERS, S. P. (ed.) (1991). Farm Animals: It Pays to be Humane. CAS Paper 22 ECONOMIST, THE (1991). Style Guide HODGE, I. D. and MONK, S. (1991). In Search of a Rural Economy: Patterns and Differentiation in Non-Metropolitan England. Monograph 20. Cambridge MAUNDER, A. and VALDES, A. (eds.) (1990). Agriculture and Governments in an Interdependent World: Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference of Agricultural Economists OECD (1991). Agricultural Policies, Markets and Trade: Monitoring and Outlook 1991 POPPE, K. J. (1991). Information Needs and Accounting in Agriculture WILLIAMS, D. B. (ed.) (1991). Agriculture in the Australian Economy. Third edition WORLD BANK (1990). Agricultural Extension: The Next Step WORLD BANK (1990). An Agricultural Strategy for Poland. The Polish, European Community, World Bank Task Force WORLD BANK (1991). Agricultural Biotechnology: The Next ‘Green Revolution?’. World Bank Technical Paper No. 133     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Econometric Methods, Third Edition: by J. Johnston
Forest and Watershed Development and Conservation in Asia and the Pacific Edited by Lawrence S. Hamilton Boulder
The Manitoba Conmercial Freshwater Fishery: An Economic Analysis : Gordon S. Gislason, James A. Macmillan and Jack W. Craven
Policy Options for the Grain Economy of the European Community: Implications for Developing Countries: by Ulrish Koester
Food Security for Developing Countries Edited by Alberto Valdes A Westview Special Study Boulder
Agriculture 2000: A Look at the Future: by Battelle Memorial
Of Time and Enterprise: North American Family Farm Management in a Context of Resource Marginality: by John W. Bennett     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
The Protection of Farmland: A Reference Guidebook for State and Local Governments by the Regional Science Research Institute Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981.
The Way Out: A More Revenue-Dependent Public Sector and How It Might Revitalize the Process of Governing by A. R. Bailey and D. G. Hull Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1980.     

Books Reviewed

Books reviewed:
Julian M. Alston, Philip G. Pardey and Vincent H. Smith, (eds.) Paying for Agricultural Productivity
P.K. Rao, The Economics of Global Climatic Change
Bernard Salanie, The Economics of Contracts: A Primer
Raisuddin Ahmed, Steven Haggblade and Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, (eds.) Out of the Shadow of Famine: Evolving Food Markets and Food Policy in Bangladesh
Lyle P. Schertz and Otto C. Doering III, The Making of the 1996 Farm Act
Joseph A. Herriges and Catherine L. Kling, Valuing Recreation and the Environment
James R. Prescott, Paul Van Moeseke and Jati Sengupta, (eds.) Urban-Regional Economics, Social System Accounts, and EcoBehavioural Science, Selected Writings of Karl A. Fox
Brent M. Haddad, Rivers of Gold: Designing Markets to Allocate Water in California
J. M. Antle, J. N. Lekakis and G. P. Zenias, (eds.) Agriculture, Trade and the Environment: The Impact of Liberalization on Sustainable Development
J. Barkley Rosser Jr., From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities: Mathematics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Finance     

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Book reviews in this article: BIL, A. (1990). The Shieling - 1600–1840: The Case of the Central Scottish Highlands BULLER, H. and WRIGHT, S. (1990). Rural Development: Problems and Practices BURRELL, A. (ed.) (1989). Milk Quotas in the European Community CHAMBERS, R., PACEY, A. and THRUPP, L. A. (eds.) (1989) COLLIER, P., RADWAN, S. and WANGWE, S. with WAGNER, A. (1990.) Labor and Poverty in Rural Tanzania: Ujamaa and Rural Development in the United States Republic of Tanzania COLLINS, E. J. T., GILES, A. K. and MALLESON, J. G. K. (eds.) Innovation and Conservation JOHNSON, P. M. (1989) Redesigning the Communist Economy: The Politics of Economic Reform in Eastern Europe KRUEGER, A. O., MICHALOPOULOS, C. and RUTTAN, V. W. (1989). Aid and Development Baltimore: Johns Hopkins CHATHIE, J. (1989) Food Aid and Industrialisation. Aldershot: Gower LOWE, P. and BODIGUEL, M. (eds.) (1990). Rural Studies in Britain and France ROMERO, C. and REHMAN, T. (1989). Multiple Criterion Analysis for Agricultural Decisions. Amsterdam: Elsevier ADAMOLEKUN, L. (1989). Issues in Development Management in Sub-Saharan Africa. EDI Policy Seminar Report, No. 19 Economic Development Institute of the World Bank CURRAN, T. (1990). The Theory and Practice of Agricultural Policy. EDI Policy Seminar Report, No. 24. Economic Development Institute of The World Bank ISLAM, N. (1990). Horticultural Exports of Developing Countries: Past Performance, Future Prospects, and Policy Issues. Research Report 80. Washington, D. C NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (1989). Investing in Research: A Proposal to Strengthen the Agricultural Food, and Environmental System. Washington, D.C NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (1989). Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s. Washington D.C.: National Academy Press (marketed and distributed by John Wiley VAN DEN NOORT, P. C. (1990). Costs and Benefits of Agricultural Policies and Projects. Proceedings of the 22nd Symposium of the European Association of Agricultural Economics, October 1989, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PLUSQUELLEC, H. (1990). The Gezira Irrigation Scheme in Sudan: Objectives, Design and Performance SHAWKI, B. and LE MOIGNE, G. (eds.) (1990): Irrigation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Development of Public and Private Systems WORLD BANK (1990). Agricultural Marketing: The World Bank's Experience, 1974–85. Washington: The World Bank, Operations Evaluation Department     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Graham Dunkley, The Free Trade Adventure: The Uruguay Round and Globalism — A Critique Jim Lees, A Legacy under Threat?: Family Farming in Australia     

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Book reviews in this article: BOURKE, A. (ed. Hill, J. and ÓGráda, C.) (1993). The Visitation of God? - The Potato and the Great Irish Famine BUSCH, L., LACY, W. B., BURKHARDT, J. and LACY, L. R. (1991). Plants, Power and Profit: Social, Economic and Ethical Consequences of the New Biotechnologies CONSTANZA, R. (ed.) (1991). Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability FOSTER, P. (1992). The World Food Problem: Tackling the Causes of Undernutrition in the Third World FRIMPONG-ANSAH, J. H. (1991). The Vampire State in Africa: The Political Economy of Decline in Ghana HERMANN, R., BURGER, K. and SMITH, P. (1993). International Commodity Policy: A Quantitative Analysis LORRAIM-SMITH, R. (1993). Computers in Forestry: Use of Spreadsheets. Taunton: Research Studies Press and Chichester: James Wiley NOBLE, D. H. and COURSE, C. (1993). Spreadsheets for Agriculture. Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman Scientific and Technical ANDERSON, J. R. and DE HAAN, C. (eds.) (1992). Public and Private Roles in Agricultural Development: Proceedings of the Twelfth Agricultural Sector Symposium BELLAMY, M. and GREENSHIELDS, B. (eds.) (1992). Issues in Agricultural Development: Sustainability and Cooperation. International Association of Agricultural Economists Occasional Paper No. 6. Aldershot GILES, A. K. (1993). The Provincial Agricultural Economics Service 1945–1968: Its Origins, Form, Demise and Legacy HILL, P., GREEN, B. and EDWARDS, A. (1992). The Costs of Care: The Costs and Benefits of Environmentally Friendly Farming Practices MILLER, F. A. (ed). (1993). Eastern Europe: Opportunities and Needs for Food and Agriculture. CAS Paper 27 OECD (1993) Agricultural and Environmental Policy Integration: Recent Progress and New Directions. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD (1993) Agricultural Policies, Markets and Trade: Monitoring and Outlook 1993. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development     

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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     

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.     

Book reviews

David Godden, Agricultural and Resource Policy: Principles and Practice
R.B.M. Huirne, J.B. Hardaker and A.A. Dijkhuizen, Risk Management Strategies in Agriculture: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Zhang-Yue Zhou, Effects of Grain Marketing Systems on Grain Production: A Comparative Study of China and India
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, The Environmental Effects of Agricultural Land Diversion Schemes     

Book reviews

Books reviewed:
Frank A. Ward and Diana Beal, Valuing Nature with Travel Cost Models: A Manual
John M. Hartwick, National Accounting and Capital
Glen McLaren and William Cooper, Distance, Drought and Dispossession: A History of the Northern Territory Pastoral Industry
Victoria C. Hollowell, (ed.) Managing Human-dominated Ecosystems
David Burch, Jasper Goss and Geoffey Lawrence, (eds.) Restructuring Global and Regional Agricultures: Transformations in Australasian Agri-food Economies and Spaces
Peter W.B. Phillips and George G. Khachatourians, (eds.) The Biotechnology Revolution in Global Agriculture: Invention, Innovation and Investment in the Canola Sector     

Books Reviewed

Books reviewed:
Singer, S. Fred. Hot Talk Cold Science: Global Warming's Unfinished Debate
Hogg, Dominic, ed. Technological Change in Agriculture: Locking in to Genetic Uniformity
Ingersent, Ken A., and A. J. Rayner. Agricultural Policy in Western Europe and the United States
Smil, Vaclav. Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
Yang, Yongzheng and Tian, Weiming, eds. China's Agriculture at the Crossroad
Lal, Deepak. Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on Long-Run Economic Performance
Opschoor, J(Hans). B., Kenneth Button, and Peter Nijkamp, eds. Environmental Economics and Development
Hamilton, James T., and W. Kip Viscusi. Calculating Risks? The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Jairus Banaji, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity:Gold,Labour and Aristocratic Dominance
Richard Franklin Bensel, The Political Economy of American Industrialization,1877 -1900
Roy Hora, The Landowners of the Argentine Pampas:A Social and Political History 1860 -1940
Jonathan Unger, The Transformation of Rural China
Ellen Meiksins, The Origin of Capitalism:A Longer View
Ondine Barrow and Michael Jennings (ed.), The Charitable Impulse: NGOs and Development in East and North-East Africa
Enrique Mayer, The Articulated Peasant:Household Economies in the Andes
Frank Muhereza and Peter Otim, Pastoral Resource Competition in Uganda:Case Studies into Commercial Livestock Ranching and Pastoral Institutions
Camilla Toulmin, Philippe Lavigne Delville and Samba Traoré (eds.), The Dynamics of Resource Tenure in West Africa     

Book reviews

Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future , Mark Diesendorf and Clive Hamilton
Economics and the Environment: A Signalling and Incentives Approach , Ian Wills
Foreign Direct Investment and Processed Food Trade: Papers Presented at the Conference of NCR-182 'Organization and Performance of World Food Systems', Arlington, Virginia, March 9–10, 1995 , Shida Rastegari Henneberry
Land Reforms in India: Andhra Pradesh — People's Pressure and Administrative Innovations , B.N. Yungandhar
Potential Impact of a Farm Forestry Industry on the Goulburn Regional Economy , C.R. Todd, I.T. Loane and I.S. Ferguson
Farms, Trees and Farmers: Responses to Agricultural Intensification , J.E. Michael Arnold and Peter A. Dewees
Risk Management Strategies in Agriculture: State of the Art and Future Perspectives , R.B.M. Huirne, J.B. Hardaker and A.A. Dijkhuizen
Effects of Grain Marketing Systems on Grain Production: A Comparative Study of China and India , Zhang-Yue Zhou
The Environmental Effects of Agricultural Land Diversion Schemes , Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris     

REVIEWS*

Book reviewed in this article: BROW, J. and WEERAMUNDA, J. (eds.) (1992). Agrarian Change in Sri Lanka COKER, A. and RICHARDS, C. (eds.) (1992). Valuing the Environment CARTER, C. A., MCCALLA, A. F., and SHARPLES, J. A. (eds.) (1990). Imperfect Competition and Political Economy: The New Trade Theory in Agricultural Trade Research ELLIS, F. (1992). Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries. Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development GILG, A. (ed.) (1992). Restructuring the Countryside: Environmental Policy in Practice HAZELL, P. B. R. and RAMASAMY, C. (eds.) (1992). The Green Revolution Reconsidered: the Impact of High-Yielding Rice Varieties in South India LIBBY, R. T. (1992). Protecting Markets: US Policy and the World Grain Trade MCINTIRE, J., BOURZAT, D. and PINGALI, P. (1992). Crop-Livestock Interaction in Sub-Saharan Africa OZANNE, A. (1992). Perverse Supply Response in Agriculture: The Importance of Produced Means of Production and Uncertainty PARDEY, P. G., ROSEBOOM, J. and ANDERSON, J. R. (eds.). Agricultural Research Policy: International Quantitative Perspectives. Published for the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) by Cambridge University Press TIMMER, P. (ed.) (1991). Agriculture and the State: Growth, Employment and Poverty in Developing Countries BROWN, M. and GOLDIN, I. (1992). The Future of Agriculture: Developing Country Implications. Development Centre Studies GILG, A. W., BRIGGS, D., DILLEY, R., FURUSETH, O. and MCDONALD, G. (eds.) (1992). Progress in Rural Policy and Planning. Volume 2 OECD (1992). Economic Accounts for Agriculture 1977–1990 OECD (1992). Business and Jobs in the Rural World OECD (1990). Partnerships in Rural Development WORLD BANK AND THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (1992). An Agricultural Strategy for Albania     

Book reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and The Environment Thomas R. DeGregori
Review of Agricultural Research Policy in an Era of Privatization Derek Byerlee and Ruben Echevarria (Eds.)
Agriculture: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change A Report of the National Agriculture Assessment Group for the US Global Change Research Program, John Reilly (Ed.)
Globalization and the Developing Countries: Emerging Strategies for Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation David Bigman (Ed.)
Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology R.E. Evenson, V. Santaniello and D. Zilberman (Eds.)
Natural Resources Management in African Countries: Understanding and Improving Current Practices C.B. Barrett, F. Place and A.A. Aboud (Eds.)
Life Science Ethics Gary Comstock (Ed.)
Travels in the Genetically Modified Zone Mark Winston     

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: 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 reviewes in this article:
Japan's Beef Industry: Economics and Technology for the Year 2000 J. R. Simpson, Y. Kojima, R. Kada, A. Miyazaki and T. Yoshida
Dilemmas of Growth: The Indian Experience L. Dantwala, Pravin Visaria, N. A. Majumdar and T. R. Sundaram