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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: 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     

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Book reviewed in this article: Co-operation in World Agriculture: Experiences, Problems and Perspectives. Edited by Theodor Bergmann and Takekazu B. Ogura Alternative Enterprises for Agriculture in the UK. Edited by S. P. Carruthers Confrontation or Negotiation: United States Policy and European Agriculture. By Agricultural Policy and Trade: Adjusting Domestic Programs in an International Framework. By D. Gale Johnson, Kenzo Hemmi and Pierre Lardinois Rural Development, Employment and Incomes in Kenya. By Ian Livingstone Agricultural Development in Southern Africa: Farm Household Economics and the Food Crisis. By Allan Low The Economics of Tropical Farm Management. By J. P. Makeham and L. R. Malcolm Subjective Equilibrium Theory of the Farm Household. By C. Nakajima Agricultural Household Models: Extensions, Applications, and Policy. Edited by Inderjit Singh, Lyn Squire and John Strauss The Farm Business. By Leonard Norman, Richard Turner and Kenneth Wilson World Trade in Forest Products 2. Edited by Gerard F. Schreuder Economics of Irish Agriculture. By Seamus J. Sheehy and Robert O'Connor Collective Farms which Work? By Nigel Swain Historical Farm Buildings of Wales. By Eurwen Wiliam. John Donald Range Economics. By John P. Workman     

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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: Food Economy in Hungary. By Ernö Csizmadia and Magda Székely Corporate Innovation: Marketing and Strategy. By Gordon R. Foxall The Economic Mind: The Social Psychology of Economic Behaviour. By Adrian Furnham and Alan Lewis Mathematical Programming for Economic Analysis in Agriculture. By Peter B. R. Hazell and Roger D. Norton Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution. By Polly Hill Elements of Agricultural Trade Policies. By James P. Houck World Food Marketing Systems. Edited by Erdener Kaynak Creating Rural Employment. By B. H. Kinsey Measuring the Benefits of Clean Air and Water. By Allen V. Kneese The Economics of Natural Environments: Studies in the Valuation of Commodity and Amenity Resources (2nd edition). By John V. Krutilla and Anthony C. Fisher World Recession and the Food Crisis in Africa. Edited by Peter Lawrence The Victorian Countryside (2 vols). Edited by G. E. Mingay Economics of Crop Insurance with Special Reference to the Needs and Situations in Developing Countries. By P. K. Ray Calcutta Crop Insurance for Agricultural Development: Issues and Experience. Edited by Peter Hazell, Carlos Pomareda and Alberto Valdes. Agricultural Insurance: A New Policy for Developing Countries. By Syed M. Ahsan. Aldershot Hoofprints on the Forest: Cattle Ranching and the Destruction of Latin America's Tropical Forests. By Douglas R. Shane Getting Prices Right: The Scope and Limits of Agricultural Price Policy. By C. Peter Timmer     

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Book reviews in this article: Modelling Farm Decisions for Policy Analysis. Edited by KENNETH H. BAUM and LYLE P. SCHERTZ Farm Management. By MICHAEL BOEHWE and Vernon R. EIDMAN Agriculture under the Common Agriculture Policy: A Geography. By IAN R. BOWLER Agricultural Development in the Third World. Edited by CARL K. EICHER and JOHN M. STAATZ British Agriculture since 1945. By B. A. HOLDERNESS Farming for Farmers? A Critique of Agricultural Support Policy. By RICHARD W. HOWARTH The Making of the Shetland Landscape. By SUSAN A. KNOX. John Donald Economics of Agricultural Development in Tropical Africa. By S. LA-ANYANE. John Wiley & Sons Agricultural Development and Nutrition. Edited by ARNOLD PACEY and PHILIP PAYNE The Energy Trap: Work, Nutrition and Child Malnutrition in Northern Nigeria. BY RICHARD LONGHURST The World Food Problem 1950–1980. By DAVID GRIGG Citizenship, Gender, and Work: Social Organisation of Industrial Agriculture. By ROBERT J. THOMAS     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Costs of the Common Agricultural Policy. By Allan Buckwell, David Harvey, Kenneth Thomson and Kevin Parton. The Political Economy of Food Aid. By John Cathie. Resource and Environmental Economics. By Anthony C. Fisher. Rural Society in Southeast India. By Kathleen Gough. Grassland in the British Economy. Edited by J. L. Jollans. Progress in Rural Extension and Community Development, volume 1. Edited by Gwyn E. Jones and Maurice Rolls. A Survey of Agricultural Economics Literature,/Volume 3: Economics of Welfare, Rural Development and Natural Resources in Agriculture, 1940s to 1970s. Edited by Lee R. Martin. Agricultural Co-operation. By Malcolm Sargent. The Political Economy of Underdevelopment. By S. B. de Silva.     

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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 .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Farm Planning with Linear Programming: Concept and Practice. By J. B. Dent , S. R. Harrison and K. B. Woodford . Food Policy: Integrating Supply, Distribution and Consumption. Edited by J. Price Gittinger , Joanne Leslie and Caroline Hoisington . Hired Labour and Rural Labour Markets in Asia. Edited by S. Hirashima and M. Muqtada . Research Methodology for Economists: Philosophy and Practice. By Glenn L. Johnson . Investing in Rural Extension: Strategies and Goals. Edited by Gwyn E. Jones . Land and Estate Management. By John Nix , Paul Hill and Nigel Williams . National Policies and Agricultural Trade. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 1987.333 pages. Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. By Prabhu Pingali , Yves Bigot and Hans P. Binswanger . Alternative Uses for Agricultural Surpluses. Edited by W. F. Raymond and P. Larvor . The Competitive Firm's Response to Risk. By Lindon J. Robison and Peter J. Barry . Alternative Farm Enterprises: A Guide to Alternative Sources of Income for the Farmer. By Bill Slee . From Farming to Biotechnology. By David Goodman , Bernardo Sorj and John Wilkinson . Rural New Zealand — What Next? Edited by L. Tim Wallace and Ralph Lattimore . Recreation Economic Decisions: Comparing Benefits and Costs. By Richard G. Walsh . Adaptive Management of Renewable Resources. By Carl Walters .     

Government and Agriculture: A Spatial Perspective

Book reviewed in this article: Information Systems for Agriculture. Edited by M. J. BLACKIE and J. B. Dem. Government and Agriculture: A Spatial Perspective. By IAN BOWLER. Strategy for the UK Forest Industry. Centre for Agricultural Strategy Critical Food Issues of the Eighties. Edited by MARILYN CHOU and DAVID P. HARMON Jr. Pergamon Agricultural Modernisation, Poverty and Inequality. By D. S. GIBBONS, R. DE KONINCK and I. HASAN. Water Production Functions for Irrigated Agriculture. By ROGER W. HEXEM and EARL 0. HEADY. Unpriced Values: Decisions wirhour Market Prices. By J. A. SINDEN and A. C. WORRELL. Food Policies. By JOHN R. TARRANT. Problems of the Agricultural Development of Less Favoured Areas in Europe. Disadvantaged Rural Europe: Development Issues and Approaches. An Aggregative Programming Approach to Agricultural Sector Analysis. Edited by NEAL WALKER and KEVIN PARTON.     

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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: 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: 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     

Book Reviews

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: National and Regional Self-sufficiency Goals — Implications for International Agriculture. By FRED J. RUPPEL, EARL D. KELLOGGan d LYNNE RIENNER(eds). Food Trends and the Changing Consumer. By BEN SENAUER, ELAINE ASP, and JEAN KINSEY. The Common Agricultural Policy and the World Economy: Essays in Honour of John Ashton. By CHRISTOPHER RITSON and DAVID HARVEY Agricultural Economics and Policy: International Challenges for the Nineties. Edited by K. Burger, M. De Groot, J. Post and V. Zacharias. Where Credit is Due: Income-Generating Programmes for the Poor in Developing Countries. By JOER EMENY Issues in the Pricing and Management of Natural Resources 1991. Farming and the Countryside: An Economic Analysis of External Costs and Benefits. Nick Hanley (ed.). World Agriculture in Disarray (Second Edition). By D.G. JOHNSO     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agricultural Prices, Policy, and Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa Dharam Ghai and Lawrence D. Smith Boulder U.S. Agriculture and Third World Development: The Critical Linkage edited by Randall B. Purcell and Elizabeth Morrison Boulder Accelerating Food Production in Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by John W. Mellor, Christopher L. Delgado and Malcolm J. Blackie Baltimore Dynamic Programming: Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources John O. S. Kennedy     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Linear Programming and Animal Nutrition: by J. B. Dent and H. Casey Free Bread for Everyman: by Peter Harsany Agricultural Development and Economic Growth: by Herman M. Southworth and Bruce F. Johnston (eds.) Agriculture and Nigerian Economic Development: by H. A. Oluwasanmi Intermediate Economic Statistics: by Karl A. Fox, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Ray A. Goldberg, Agribusiness Co-Ordination: A Systems Approach to the Wheat, Soybean, and Florida Orange Economics Economics of Food Retailing: by Daniel I. Padberg Atlantic Agricultural Unity: Is It Possible?: by John O. Coppock     

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Book reviewed in this article: L'Economie Agricole. By Henri de Farcy. Éditions Sirey Farm management and Agricultural Economics. By J. B. Hardaker , J. N. Lewis and G. C. Mc Farlane. Les Relations entre Capital et Production dans l'Agriculture. By Pierre Rainelli. Dynamics of Commodity Production Cycles. By Dennis L. Meadows. Europe's Future Food and Agriculture. Edited by A. M. M. Mc Farquhar. Planning Development. By K. B. Griffin and J. L. Enos. Policies, Planning and Management for Agricultural Development. Agricultural Marketing and the E.E.C. By Michael Butterwick and Edmund Neville -Rolfe Capital and Finance in Agriculture. O.E.C.D. Horticulture in Britain. By P. G. Ellis et al. The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan. By Thomas C. Smith.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Australian Agriculture. Reconciling Change and Tradition. By Kkeith O. Campbell. Surveys of Australian Economics Volume 2. Edited by F. H. Gruen Economics (Australian Edition): Principles, Problems, Policies. By John Jackson and R. Mcconnell. The Economics of Agricultural Production. By Edward Witkowski and Arnold Wells. An Introduction to Economics for Students of Agriculture. By Berkeley Hill. Agricultural Modernization, Poverty and Inequality. By David S. Gibbons, Rodolphe de Koninck and Ibrahim Hasan. Cattle, Economics and Development. By Raymond Crotty.