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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: 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: Environmental Economics: First Canadian Edition. By BARRY C. FIELD and NANCY D. Confessions of a Failed Finance Minister. By PETER WALSH Structural Change and Small-Farm Agriculture in Northwest Portugal. By ERIC MONKE Science Under Scarcity: Principles and Practice for Agricultural Research Evaluation and Priority Setting. J.M. ALSTON, G.W. NORTON and P.G. PARDEY     

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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: 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: 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     

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Book reviewed in this article: A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature. Volume 2. Quantitative Methods in Agricultural Economics, 1940s to 1970s. Edited by George G. Judge, Richard H. Day, S. R. Johnson, Gordon C. Rausser, and Lee R. Martin. The Economic Growth Debate-An Assessment. By E. J. Mishan. Nontariff Agriculturul Trade Barriers. By J. S. Hillman The Agricultural Bureau: A Sociological Study. Sociology Research Monograph No. 1. By Alan W. Black and Russell A. Craig     

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Book reviewed in this article: ORANI A Multisectoral Model of the Australian Economy. By PETER B. DIXON, B. R. PARMENTER JOHN SUTTON and D. P. VINCENT. Imperfect Markets in Agricultural Trade. By ALEX F. MCCALLA and TIMOTHY E. JOSLING Grain Export Cartels. By A. SCHMITZ, A. F. MCCALLA, D. O. MITCHELL and C. CARTER. Stabilisation of the International Grain Market. By J. C. BLOM. Agricultural Marketing and Prices. By K. O. CAMPBELL and B. S. FISHER The Agricultural Marketing System. By V. JAMES RHODES. Agricultural Marketing. By BY J. W. BARKER. The Australian Financial System After the Campbell Report. By J. O. N. PERKINS. Agricultural Research and Technology in Economic Development. By PER PINSTRUP-ANDERSEN. Wild Pigs: Environmental Pest or Economic Resource? By BY C. A. TISDELL     

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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: 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: Population and Food Supply: Essays on Human Needs and Agricultural Problems. Edited by Sir Joseph Hutchinson . Cambridge University Press. Farming in Britain Today. By J. G. S. and Frances Donaldson . Allen Lane, Penguin Press, Hardmondsworth, Middlesex. 1969. Environment and Land Use in Africa. Edited by M. F. Thomsas and G. W. Whittington . Methuen, London. 1969. Problems and Approaches in Planning Agricultural Development. Proceedings of the Joint German Foundation/E.C.A./F.A.O. Seminar, Addis Ababa. 1967. Cotton and the Egyptian Economy, 1820–1914. By E. R. J. Owen . Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press. 1969. The Economy of the Private Woodland in Great Britain. By R. Llorrain -Smith . Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford. Institute Paper No. 40. 1969. Report on the Marketing of Scottish Seed Potatoes. By F. G. Hay . National Farmers' Union of Scotland. 1969. Agricultural and Food Statistics—A Guide to Official Sources. Studies in official statistics No. 14. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. H.M.S.O., London. 1969. Food Statistics. A Guide to the Major Official and Unofficial U.K. sources. (Compiled by A. W. Ashby ). National Economic Development Office. Die landwirtschaftlichen Betriebsgrössen in der Sowjetunion in Statistik und Theorie. (The size of agricultural undertakings in the Soviet Union in statistics and theory.) By Ivan Lon?arevi? . Otoo Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. (No. 45, Giessen Studies of E. European agricultural and economic research.) 1969. Wörterbuch der Landwirtschaft—Ergänzungsband Russisch. By Nikolai Pas'chin . BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich. 1969.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agriculture in the Australian Economy. Edited by D. B. Williams. Why Growth Rates Differ: Post-War Experience in Nine Western Countries. By E. F. Denison and J. R. Poullier. Agribusiness Co-ordination. A System Approach to the Wheat, Soybean and Florida Orange Economies. By R. A. Goldberg. Australian Federalism in the Courts. By G. Sawer. An Interindustry Study of the Western Australian Economy. By M. L. Parker. Agricultural Development of African Nations. By S. C. Jain. Economic Historicism. The Historical School in Economics. By Ghalib Mohammed Ali Baqir. An Australian Bibliography of Agricultural Economics 1788-1960. Compiled by J. L. Dillon and G. C. MCfarlane. Drought: Causes, Eflects, Solutions. By D. Campbell. The Analysis of Response in Crop and Livestock Production. By J. L. Dillon     

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Book reviewed in this article: The International Grain Trade: Problems and Prospects. By Nick Butler The State and Rural Economic Transformation: The Case of Punjab 1950–85. By G. K. Chadha The Harvest of Sorrow. By Robert Conquest Agriculture: People and Policies. Edited by Graham Cox, Philip Lowe and Michael Winter The Green Revolution Revisited: Critique and Alternatives. Edited by Bernhard Glaeser The Industrialization of the Countryside. Edited by Michael J. Healey and Brian W. Ilbery Land at the Centre: Choices in a Fast Changing World. By John C. Holliday Dynamic Programming: Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources. By John O. S. Kennedy Accelerating Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by J. W. Mellor, C. L. Delgado and M. J. Blackie American Green Power. By Alain Revel and Christophe Riboud. Translated by Edward W. Tanner     

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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: Economics in Horticulture. By M. J. SARGENT. Macmillan, London. Rural Resource Development. By M. C. WHITBY, D. L. J… ROBINS, A. W. TANSEY and K. G. WLLIIS. Nutrition and Food in an Afiican Economy. Edited by V. F. AMANN, D. G. R. BEISHAW and J. P. STANFIELD. Indian Food Grain Marketing. By J. R. MOORE, S. S. JOHL and A. M. KHUSRO.     

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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: 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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Books reviewed in this article. Santaniello , V., Evenson , R. E., Zilberman , D. and Carson , G. A. (eds.) Agriculture and Intellectual Property Rights: Economic, Institutional and Implementation Issues in Biotechnology. Alston , Julian M., Pardey , Philip G., and Taylor , Michael J. (Eds.). Agricultural Science Policy: Changing Global Agendas Gijsbers , G., Janssen , W., Hambly Odame , H. and Meijerink , G. (eds.) (2001). Planning Agricultural Research: a Sourcebook. Piccinini , A. and Loseby , M. (2000). Agricultural Policies in Europe and the USA—Farmers between Subsidies and the Market, (Introduction by Franz Fischler) Palgrave Piccinini , A. and Loseby , M. (2000). Agricultural Policies in Europe and the USA –Farmers between Subsidies and the Market, (Introduction by Franz Fischler) Gaisford , J.and Kerr , W. (2000). Economic Analysis for International Trade Negotiations, Edward Elgar. Hartell , J. G. and Swinnen , Johan F. M. (2000). Agriculture and East‐West European Integration. Turner , M. E., Beckett , J. V. and Afton , B. (2001). Farm Production in England, 1700‐1914 Sumberg , J. and Okali , C. (1997). Farmers' Experiments, Creating Local Knowledge. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder/London.     

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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     

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Book reviewed in this article: British Farming in the Great Depression: 1870–1914. By P. J. PERRY. David & Charles, Newton Abbot Agricultural Resources— an introduction to the farming industry of the U.K. Edited by ANGELA EDWARDS and ALAN ROGERS. Faber and Faber Agricultural Geography. By J. R. TARRANT. David and Charles, Newton Abbot The Organic Resources of Scotland: their nature and evaluation. Edited by JOY TIVY. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh. The Value of Agricultural Land. By COLIN CLARK. Pergamon Press, Oxford. Terrain Evaluation. By C. W. MITCHELL. Longman, London. Land Reform — the Italian experience. By RUSSELL KING. Butterworth, London. 1973 The King's Vista. By D. R. DENMAN. Geographical Publications, Berkhamsted Tropical Farming Economics. By M. R. HASWELL. Longman, London. Intensive Crop Economics. By R. R. W. FOLLEY. Heinemann, London. Milk to Market— Forty Years of Milk Marketing. By STANLEY BAKER. Heinemann, London. Rural Life— patterns and processes. By GWYN E. JONES. Longman, London. RASAR: a Resource Allocation System for Agricultural Research. By D. G. RUSSELL. University of Stirling, Department of Industrial Science.