This comparative empirical analysis of public efforts to improve rice production in Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand explores theoretical questions in the field of comparative and development administration and provides detailed information on four major programs designed to alleviate the chronic problems of food prod
This collection of studies on the politics of agricultural development in regions of Asia and Africa emphasizes the need for steady and significant increases in food production in the developing countries.
A collection of articles which provide examples that demonstrate the application of dynamic programming to a wide variety of decision problems in agriculture.
This book examines the character and consequences of Egypt's economic reform and structural adjustment programme of 1991, along with the second stage of reforms in 1996.
This book integrates the most current research findings on the economic, demographic, fiscal, and social consequences of rapid growth in rural communities and offers strategies that can be used to mitigate the often disruptive impact of that growth.
The nations of Subsaharan Africa experienced declining levels of food production per capita throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly in the area of livestock production.
This book examines the impact of the rise and fall of new commodities, production technologies, and shifting government policies on individuals and farm families in the rural South and the interrelationship between agricultural change and community change.
This book aims to examine how the pattern of growth in the agricultural sectors has contributed to equitable growth and to assess the relevance of the relationship between agriculture and equitable growth in Punjab-Haryana for other states in India and for other low-income countries.
With the emergence of collectivization, the communal movement, and the food crisis, the development of agriculture in socialist countries has become a topic of great interest to economists.
This book presents an integrated analysis of the dynamics of the economics of households and farm production in the setting of a polygynous family structure and traditional agriculture in sub-Saharan rural Africa.
This book attempts to contribute to a fuller understanding of perennial issues underlying farm problems and agricultural policies in the United States thus contributing to better projections of policy effects, to better forecasts of policy changes, and perhaps to better policy for agriculture.
This book focuses on the political-economic dimensions of the food crisis, with case studies from the four regions-Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East-of the Third World.
High rates of growth in agricultural production need not be incompatible with increased employment, income, and the satisfaction of basic needs in the lower-income developing countries.
Policymakers, farmers, managers of agriculture and others look to agricultural economists for accurate estimates of the costs and returns of individual agricultural commodities.
Eminent economists and development experts focus on a number of concerns that are currently the major preoccupation of development economists, policymakers, and practitioners.
Microeconomic modeling has been an important tool for agricultural economists for several decades and promises to be important for ad-dressing the research problems of the 1980s as well.
This collection of studies on the politics of agricultural development in regions of Asia and Africa emphasizes the need for steady and significant increases in food production in the developing countries.
This comparative empirical analysis of public efforts to improve rice production in Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand explores theoretical questions in the field of comparative and development administration and provides detailed information on four major programs designed to alleviate the chronic problems of food prod
A collection of articles which provide examples that demonstrate the application of dynamic programming to a wide variety of decision problems in agriculture.
This book examines the character and consequences of Egypt's economic reform and structural adjustment programme of 1991, along with the second stage of reforms in 1996.
This book integrates the most current research findings on the economic, demographic, fiscal, and social consequences of rapid growth in rural communities and offers strategies that can be used to mitigate the often disruptive impact of that growth.
This book attempts to contribute to a fuller understanding of perennial issues underlying farm problems and agricultural policies in the United States thus contributing to better projections of policy effects, to better forecasts of policy changes, and perhaps to better policy for agriculture.
This book focuses on the political-economic dimensions of the food crisis, with case studies from the four regions-Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East-of the Third World.
