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* excellent practical primer

* ideal book for those going into the field for the first time

* clearly written, well illustrated, interdisciplinary, vital


"The Resilient Family Farm" is an interdisciplinary primer written for those who are involved in or who support rural development. Part I highlights the economic and ecological realities of the small family farm, while Part II examines the role of the development organization in supporting farm families who cope with these economic and environmental realities.

In simple, straightforward language with photographs and illustrations, "The Resilient Family Farm" includes examples of development successes and failures, shares observations and lessons from the field, clarifies the challenges and realities of rural development work and provides guidance for donors and practitioners who understand that the rich inter-connectedness and complexities of smallholder farm life demand complete, rather than partial, responses and support. ... Read more

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Based on over twenty years of first-hand research, this book explores the nature of the interrelationships among agricultural growth, rural poverty, environmental degradation, and participatory rural institutions in India. C.H. Rao looks at the spread of agricultural growth to less developed regions, and the subsequent decline of real poverty; the decline of real public investment in agriculture; and the increasing levels of environmental degradation due to the slow rate of land replenishing technological change. In his analysis, Rao demonstrates the implications of this tangled network for the future of development strategy and policy in the context of the on-going economic reforms. ... Read more

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Those who study global poverty and ways to reduce it face a perennial set of questions: Do advances in knowledge, research, and technology make a real difference in the lives of poor people? What effect does research have on the poor? Who benefits? The contributors to Agricultural Research, Livelihoods, and Poverty shed light on these questions through a collection of case studies that explore the types of impact that agricultural research has had on livelihoods and poverty in low-income countries.

The studies focus on the impact of research carried out by several institutions that are part of or collaborate with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the leading nonprofit consortium conducting international agricultural research in low-income countries. The countries covered include Bangladesh, China, India, Kenya, Mexico, and Zimbabwe.

The contributors employ micro-level case studies and macro-level analysis and combine methods and perspectives from economics, sociology, and anthropology. They examine whether and how agricultural research has affected livelihoods, vulnerability, and poverty; the extent to which poverty reduction can be attributed to different technologies; and the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which technologies affect different social and economic groups.

This book will help researchers in the agricultural and social sciences, as well as others concerned with development policy and its implementation, to better understand the pathways connecting research and poverty reduction and to guide future study of this vitally important issue.

CONTRIBUTORS: Michelle Adato, Javier Becerril, Suraiya Begum, Mauricio R. Bellon, Manik L. Bose, Michael Bourdillon, Connie Chan-Kang, Alamgir Chowdhury, Shenggen Fan, Lawrence Haddad, Kelly Hallman, Peter Hazell, Paul Hebinck, John Hoddinott, Mahabub Hossain, Bill Kinsey, K. Krishnaiah, David Lewis, John Marondo, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Dubravka Mindek, Netsayi Mudege, Mary Omosa, Trudy Owens, Frank Place, and Keming Qian.

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This text has been specifically developed to meet the needs for classroom and reference materials that address broad contemporary legal issues of practical relevance to agriculture. The material ranges from basic contract, tort and property law to the regulation of agricultural employment; from a variety of natural resources to provisions in the Uniform Commercial Code; and from legal issues surrounding alternative forms of business organizations to the basic discussion of federal estate and gift taxation. This book selects general principles of law for discussion and organizes them into chapters that focus primarily upon typical agricultural activities and provides a careful balance of cases and textual discussion, thus creating a text that has the benefits of a more traditional casebook and a treatise of law. It offers cases that have been chosen for their relevance to the specific issues discussed in the text and presents "facts" drawn from the original case reports; "opinions" drawn from original cases are included; and "judgments" to provide summaries of the court discussions.This edition includes expanded discussions of important topics such as bankruptcy, government regulation and environmental law and offers edited cases that now include a new feature called "facts," "opinion" and "judgment", which clarify the material in the cases for the student. It also provides new study qeustions at the end of each chapter and includes a glossary of key terms. ... Read more

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This volume aims at covering the variety of issues lying at the intersection of the modern theory of Industrial Organization and of the more traditional Agricultural Economics. The book is divided into three main sections. Each of them includes contributions which are particularly relevant for a better understanding of one or several of the following key issues: the organization of agriculture and its mechanisms, the extent of the market power in agri-food industries and, more generally, the failures of agricultural markets, and finally the nature of government's intervention in these markets. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1921.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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The application of the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock—and to land usage more generally—is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study, and this new four-volume collection in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics, meets the need for an authoritative, up-to-date, and comprehensive reference work synthesizing its voluminous literature. Indeed, the sheer scale of the research output—and the breadth of the field—makes this collection especially welcome. It answers the need for a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary contributions to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important scholarship from a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives.

Agricultural Economics is edited by Gail L. Cramer, a leading scholar in the field. The collection is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.

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Farmers, Gene Banks and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses ofDiversity in Wheat, Maize, and Rice responds to concernsabout the loss of valuable genetic resources and crop vulnerabilityarising from widespread cultivation of genetically uniform varieties.It assembles a series of applied studies focusing on the fundamentaleconomic issues related to genetic diversity in crop species, withspecial reference to developing countries. By presenting the resultsof initial economic investigations of diversity in the world's threemajor food crops (wheat, maize, and rice),this volume furthers theunderstanding of the economic context in which crop breeders make useof genetic resources and their diversity.
Farmers, Gene Banks and Crop Breeding: Economic Analyses ofDiversity in Wheat, Maize, and Rice responds to currentconcerns about the loss of valuable genetic resources and cropvulnerability arising from the widespread cultivation of geneticallyuniform varieties. Previous work by economists in the study ofbiodiversity has been largely theoretical and has emphasized speciesdiversity. In contrast, this book offers concrete steps in methods andconceptual development, providing an annotated catalog of the toolsused to measure and value genetic diversity.
The book will appeal to international agricultural researchinstitutions, to international development organizations and NGOs, andto students and professors in departments of agricultural and resourceeconomics who are concerned with the problem of biodiversity. ... Read more

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This collection of essays describes the world-wide impact of Earl Heady's research and writing on agricultural economics. Each chapter describes and evaluates the man's contribution in terms of how he was able to work with others in multidisciplinary research efforts to solve real world problems. ... Read more

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Colman and Young address the main economic principles required by agricultural economists involved in rural development.They draw upon the characteristics of agricultural and food systems in less developed countries to highlight the importance of economic principles.Because argriculture presents unique problems to economists, this book equips the reader with the analytical tools that agricultural economists need for the study of supply, demand, and agricultural markets in developing countries. The book considers the three main strands in the theoretical analysis of agricultural product markets--production, consumption, and exchange.In addition, later chapters assess the merits of alternative economic situations. ... Read more

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Marketing Sugar and Other Sweeteners was written to fill a large void of literature on the marketing aspects of an important sector of the food market.In fact, there are no books available on this subject.
The intent of this book is to provide a readable, non-technical publication which provides a comprehensive presentation of major issues, trends, data, and likely outcomes of sweetener marketing.The emphasis is upon presentation of the real world operation of sugar and other sweetener markets as opposed to a theoretical model of sweetener markets.This objective requires probing into private market institutions such as sugar brokerage, as well as publicly instituted sugar policies of the American federal government.
All of the participants in sweetener production, marketing, and policy will find this book useful. ... Read more

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A sweeping overview of the American peasantry: the largely sharecrop cultivators who, in Seavoy's analysis, rejected the labor norms of commercial agriculture. About equal numbers of black and white sharecroppers chose to practice subsistence cultivation in order to minimize agricultural labor. The study begins with pre-Civil War slave plantations and the landless white peasants who migrated to North America to escape full-time paid labor in Britain. Seavoy then describes and analyzes the operation of the postbellum sharecrop system and related Back Caste System; the different origins of southern and northern Populism; the massive displacement of southern peasants (after 1950) when cotton cultivation was fully mechanized, and how the voluntary joblessness of the urban underclass has been perpetuated by the welfare entitlements of the Great Society. ... Read more

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Intended for an undergraduate course in agricultural development or economic development of underdeveloped and Third World countries, this text is designed to help students from a broad range of backgrounds gain an understanding of the complexities of the agricultural development problem and to develop analytical skills that will enhance their capability to respond to and solve development problems. It provides comprehensive and balanced coverage of the field by examining such current topics as environmental degradation, the role of women in agricultural development, foreign debt problems, foreign aid, and the importance of macroeconomic policies. It presupposes only an introductory knowledge of economics and gives a review of basic economic theory where necessary, such as supply and demand analysis, production economics, and fiscal and monetary policy. It interprets standard neoclassical theory while also illustrating the importance of modifying that theory to account for imperfect information and for the willingness of people to exploit others. Important insights for development policy are provided, and it helps to explain why some countries develop while others are left behind.Pedagogical features include learning objectives; boxed, worked-out examples; numerous photos; chapter summaries; discussion questions; and a bibliography to support and motivate student study. In addition it keeps jargon to a minimum and explains necessary terms in a clear writing style. ... Read more

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This volume examines current agricultural R&D policy, evaluating it in the context of the 100-plus-year history of U.S. public-sector agricultural R&D institutions and expenditures. ... Read more