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International agricultural development / edited by Carl K. Eicher and John M. Staatz.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Johns Hopkins studies in developmentPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xi, 615 p.: ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 080185878X
  • 0801858798 (pbk.)
  • 9780801858796
Uniform titles:
  • Agricultural development in the Third World.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.1412 21 INT
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Table of Contents
Preface ix

PART I: THE CHALLENGES

Introduction 3
1. Agricultural Development Ideas in Historical Perspective 8
2. Agriculture and Food Needs to 2025 39
3. Foreign Aid and Agriculture-Led Development 55

PART II: HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 69

4. Economic Performance through Time 78
5. Community, Market, and State 90
6. Markets, Market Failures, and Development 103
7. The Agricultural Transformation 113
8. Agriculture and the Road to Industrialization 136
9. Models of Agricultural Development 155
10. Induced Innovation Model of Agricultural Development 163

PART III; POLICY PERSPECTIVES 181

11. The Macroeconomics of Food and Agriculture 187
12. The Case of Trade Liberalization 212
13. The Plundering of Agriculture in Developing Countries 226
14. The Political Framework for Agricultural Policy Decisions 234
15. Food, Economics, and Entitlements 240

PART IV: AGRICULTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 259

16. Agricultural Development: Transforming Human Capital, Technology and Institutions 271
17. Agricultural and Rural Development: Painful Lessons 287
18. The Peasant in Economic Modernization 300
19. Reflection on Land Reform and Farm Size 316
20. Investing in People 329
21. Projects for Women: Explaining Their Misbehavior 339
22. Agricultural Extension in the Twenty-first Century 354
23. How do Market Failures Justify Interventions in Rural Credit Market? 370
24. Microfinance: The Paradigm Shift from Credit Delivery to Sustainable Financial Intermediation 390
25. Constraints on the Design of Sustainable Systems of Agricultural Production 431
26. Constraints on the design of Sustainable Systems of Agricultural Production 431
27. African Agriculture: Productivity and Sustainability Issues 444
28. Maintaining Productivity Gains in Post-Green Revolution Asian Agriculture 458
29. Confronting the Ecological Consequences of the Rice Green 474
30. Choice of Techniques in Rice Milling on Java 494

PART V: LESSONS FROM ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION 515

31. Agricultural development and reform in China 523
32. The Role of Agricultural in Indonesia’s Development 539
33. Zimbabwe’s Maize Revolution: Insights for Closing Africa’s Food Gap 550
34. Path-Dependent Policy Reforms: From Land Reform to Rural Development in Colombia 571
35. Agricultural Reform in Central and Eastern Europe 586
Name Index 603
Subject Index 607

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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