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Book reviewed in this article: BOSERUP, E. (1990). Economic and Demographic Relationships in Development: (essays selected and introduced by T. Paul Schultz) BRYANT, C. R. and JOHNSTON, T. R. R. (1991). Agriculture in the City's Countryside CHOPRA, K., KADEKODI, G. K. and MURTY, M. N. (1990). Participatory Development: People and Common Property Resources SENGUPTA, N. (1991). Managing Common Property - Irrigation in India and the Philippines CHRISTY, R. D. and WILLIAMSON, L. (eds.) (1992). A Century of Service: Land-Grant Colleges and Universities 1980–1990 DUNCAN, A. and HOWELL, J. (eds.) (1992). Structural Adjustment and the African Farmer HALLBERG, M. C. (1992). Policy for American Agriculture: Choices and Consequencies KOFMAN, P. (1990). Managing Primary Commodity Trade: On The Use of Futures Markets. Bickersgracht 60 LELE, U. (ed.) (1992). Aid to African Agriculture: Lessons From Two Decades of Donors' Experience MARTIN, L. R. (ed.) (1992). A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature, Volume 4. Agriculture in Economic Development 1940s to 1990s SINGH, I. (1990). The Great Ascent: The Rural Poor in South Asia     

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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: Ritson, C. and Harvey, D. (1997). The Common Agricultural Policy, Second Edition. Simpson, J. R., Kojima, Y., Kada, R., Miyazaki, A. and Yoshida, T. (1996). Japan's Beef Industry: Economics and Technology for the Year 2000.     

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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: World Trade in Forest Products. Edited by JAMES S. BETHEL. Aid for the Development of Irrigation. Edited by IAN D. CARRUTHERS. Monitoring Systems for Agricultural and Rural Development Projects: volumes I and 2. Edited by E. CLAYTON and F. PETRY. Production Economics: Theory with Applications (2nd edition). By JOHN P. DOLL and FRANK ORAZEM. Pastoral and Social Problems in a Semi-arid Environment: A Simulation Model. Edited by T. G. FREEMAN and P. R. BENYON. Countryside Planning Yearbook 1984. Edited by ANDREW W. GILL Geo Books. Land Policy in Fiji. By D. T. LLOYD. University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economy. The Spatial Organisation of New Land Sertlement in Latin America. By JACOB 0. MAOS. Planning for Agricultural Development. By J. A. MOLLETT. Croom Helm, The Politics of Agriculture in the European Community. By EDMUND NEVILLE-ROLFE. Issues and Challenges for OECD Agriculture in the 1980s. By ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT. Farmers of Five Continents. By DON PAARLBERG. Strategies for Family- Worked Farms in the UK. Edited by R. B. TRANTER. Food Grain Procurement and Consumption in China. By KENNETH R. WALKER.     

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Development and the landowner: Analysis of the British experience. R. Goodchild and R. Munton, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1985. 224 pp., ISBN 0043 33021 5, £22.00

Affordable housing: new policies and the housing and mortgage markets. Kenneth T. Rosen. A Twentieth Century Fund Report, Ballinger Publishing Co., Cambridge, Massachusetts (distributed in UK by Harper & Row). 181 pp., £27.50     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Economic Analysis of Environmental Problems by Edwin S. Mills (ed.)
Land Use Policies and Agriculture Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Protein Efficiency in Canada George R. Winter
Agriculture and the State B. Davey, T. E. Josling and A. McFarquhar (Eds.)     

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Books reviewed in this article. CLARKE, R., DAVIES, S., DOBSON, P. and WATERSON, M. 2002 Buyer Power and Competition in European Food Retailing. KENNEDY, P. L. and KOO, W. K. (eds). 2002 Agricultural Trade Policies in the New Millennium SCHMITZ, A., SPREEN, T.H., MESSINA, W.A., and MOSS, C.B. (2002). Sugar and Related Sweetener Markets: International Perspectives. JUST, R.E., and POPE, R.D. (eds) A Comprehensive Assessment of the Role of Riskin US Agriculture.     

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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     

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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: 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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Books reviewed in this article: Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture Edited by Ian Goldin and L. Alan Winters Market Demand for Dairy Products Edited by S. R. (Stanley) Johnson, D. Peter Stonehouse and Zuhair A. Hassan Agroindustrial Project Analysis: Critical Design Factors James A. Austin Agriculture and Trade in the Pacific Boulder Edited by W. T. Coyle, D. Hayes and H. Yamauchi Coffee: The Political Economy of an Export Industry in Papua New Guinea Randal G. Stewart Discrimination Against Agriculture in Developing Countries? Roland Herrmann, Patricia Schenck, Rainer Thiele and Manfred Wiebelt     

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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 Challenge of World Poverty-A World Anti-Poverty Programme in Outline. By GUNNAR MYRDAL. Seeds of Change-The Green Revolution and Development in the. 1970s. By LESTER R. BROWN. Econometric Studies of Macro and Monetary Relations. By ALAN A. POWELL and Ross A. WILLIAMS Financial Management in Agriculture. By JOHN A. HOPKIN, PETER J. BARRY and C. B. BAKE Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Economics. By E. D. JAMESand C. D. THROSBY. Soybeans and Their Products: Markets, Models, and Policy. By JAMES P. HOUCK, MARY E. RYAN, and ABRAHAM SUBOTNIK. Farm Planning by Computer. By J. B. HARDAKER. Scheduling the Operations of the Bhakra System. By B. S. MINHAS, K. A. PARIKH. and T. N. SRINIVASAN with S. A. MARGLIN and T. E. WEISSK?PF.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Food Goals, Future Structural Changes and Agricultural Policy: A National Basebook. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Problems of Change in Australian Agriculture. Edited by J. P. MAKEHAM and J. G. BIRD Management Science in Marketing. By D. B. MONTGOMERY and G. L. URBAN A Managerial Zntroduction to Marketinp. Bv T. A. STAUDT and D. A. TAYLOR Economic Activity. By G. C. HARCOURT, P. H. KARMEL and R. H. WALLACE Australia from the Air. Edited by M. WILLIAMS Development of Co-operative Marketing: A Survey Report. RESERVE BANK OF INDIA     

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Book reviews in this article:
Ecological Integrity and the Management of Ecosystems Edited by Stephen Woodley, James Kay and George Francis
North-South Grain Markets and Trade Policies Edited by D. Blandford, C. A. Carter and R. Piggott
Aquaculture, Models and Economics Edited by Upton Hatch and Henry Kinnucan
The Development of American Agriculture A Historical Analysis (Second Edition) Cochrane, Willard W.
Deep Disagreement in U.S. Agriculture: Making Sense of Policy Conflict Christopher Hamlin and Philip T. Shepard
Applications of Dynamic Programming to Agricultural Decision Problems Edited by C. Robert Taylor     

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Book reviews in this article: GOLDWIN, I. and WINTERS, L. A. (eds.) (1992). Open Economies: Structural Adjustment and Agriculture HAZELL, P. B. R. and RAMASAMY, C. (eds.) (1991). The Green Revolution Reconsidered: The Impact of High-Yielding Rice Varieties in South India JODHA, N. S., BANSKOTA, M. and PARTAP, T. (1992). Sustainable Mountain Agriculture. Vol. 1 Perspectives and Issues JODHA, N. S., BANSKOTA, M. and PARTAP, T. (1992). Sustainable Mountain Agriculture. Vol. 2 Farmers' Strategies and Innovative Approaches KRUEGER, A. (1992). The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy. Volume 5. A Synthesis of the Political Development in Developing Countries LESSER, W. (1993). Marketing Livestock and Meat. New York: Food Products Press (Haworth Press) MARK, J. and STRANGE, R. (1993). The Food Industries: Review of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Volume XXVIII. London: Chapman and Hall on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society and the Economic and Social Research Council METTRICK, H. (1993). Development Oriented Research in Agriculture: An ICRA Textbook. Wageningen: International Centre for Development Orientated Research in Agriculture (ICRA) RAYNER, A. J. and COLMAN, D. (eds.) (1993). Current Issues in Agricultural Economics SCHIFF, M. and VALDÉS, A. (1992). The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy, Volume 4, A Synthesis of the Economics in Developing Countries, Baltimore TRACY, M. (1993). Food and Agriculture in a Market Economy: An Introduction to Theory, Practice and Policy TRIPP, R. (ed.) (1992). Planned Change in Farming Systems: Progress in On-Farm Research CÉCORA, J. (ed.) (1993). Economic Behaviour of Family Households in an International Context. Bonn: Society for Agricultural Policy Research and Rural Sociology (FAA) HILL, B. and BROOKES, B. (1993). Farm Incomes in the European Community in the 1980s. Document Series     

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Book reviewed in this article: Food for the Future. By KEITH 0. CAMPBELL. University of Nebraska Press Co-operative and Commune. Group Farming in the Economic Development of Agriculture. Edited by PETER DORNER The Common Agricultural Poky of the European Community. By ROSEMARY FENNELL The Role of US Agriculture in Foreign Policy. By R. M. FRAENKEL, D. F. HADWICER AND W. P. BROWNE The Political Economy of Collectivised Agriculture. A Comparative Study of Communist and Non-communist Systems. Edited by R. A. FRANCISCO, B. A. LAIRD and R. D. LAIRD The Economics of World Grain Trade. By T. GRENNES, P. R. JOHNSON and M. C. THURSBY. The New Politics of Food. Edited by D. F. HADWIGER and W. P. BROWNE The Global Political Economy of Food. Edited by R. F. HOPKINS and D. J. PUCHALA. Natural Resource Economics. Isues, Analysis and Policy. By CHARLES W. HOW. John Wiley and Sons Agricultural Commodities Index. Edited by JANE BUZBY MCFALL. Green and Pleasant Land? Social Change in Rural England. By HOWARD NEWBY An Introduction to Agricultural System. By C. R. W. SPEDDING     

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Book reviewed in this article: Bollman, R. D. and Bryden, J. M. (eds.) (1997). Rural Employment: An International Perspective. Dantwala, M. L. (edited and with an introduction by Visaria, P., Mujumdar, N. A. and Sundaram, T. R.) (1996). Dilemmas of Growth: The Indian Experience. Hardaker, J. B., Huirne, R. B. M. and Anderson, J. R. (1997). Coping with Risk in Agriculture. Koukoulakis, P. H. (ed.) (1994). Agriculture and Human Health. Longworth, J. W. and Williamson, G. J. (1993). China's Pastoral Region: Sheep and Wool. Minority Nationalites, Rangeland Degradation and Sustainable Development. Tracy, M. (1996). Agricultural Policy in the European Union and Other Market Economies.     

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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