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By L. Berkofsky, David Faiman, J. Gale
March 31, 2021
First published in 1981. Settling the Desert is an attempt to organise those aspects of scientific and sociological research that are the necessary prerequisites for making the desert a comfortable and profitable place for man to inhabit. In this book, experts from many fields of desert research ...
By Klaus W. Deininger
March 31, 2021
First published in 1995. Based on a detailed adjustment for the quality of inputs and outputs, this study develops state-level measures for total factor productivity growth in US agriculture which are used to determine (i) the presence and determinants of convergence across states; (ii) the ...
By Allan Buckwell, D. R. Harvey, K. J. Thomson, K. A. Parton
March 31, 2021
First published in 1982. Considerable public controversy surrounded the large amount of public expenditure devoted to agriculture under the European Community’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). There were serious disputes over how the farm support system operated and how it was financed. This ...
By David Grigg
March 31, 2021
First published in 1982. Until the nineteenth-century the history of agriculture was the history of mankind but it has not perhaps received the wide attention that this importance justifies. In this study, the author reviews for the student of agricultural history successive attempts to describe ...
By Margaret Capstick
March 31, 2021
First published in 1970. The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to the special problems of agriculture in modern economies. The author writes for students of economics who have already acquired the elements of economic theory; no attempt is made, therefore, to explain simple theoretical...
By Various
August 27, 2019
This set of previously out-of-print works is an essential reference collection encompassing a huge array of agricultural topics. These classic texts analyses agricultural change and economics; land use and development; Soviet farming; Indian farming; American farming; and much more besides....