Books Reviewed: The World Coffee Market and the International Coffee Agreement by M.Th.A. Pieterse and H.J. Silvis; Agricultural Marketing Enterprises for the Developing World by J.C. Abbott; Marketing Improvement in the Developing World: What Happens and What We Have Learned; Agricultural...

In this paper, we describe and compare the institutional framework of the agricultural credit markets in selected European countries. The institutions can be both formal (rules, regulations, authorities and actors) and informal (norms, values and relations). They also interact and in a situation...

Books Reviewed: Elements of Agricultural Trade Policies by J.P. Houck. Macmillan; The Economics of Tropical Farm Management by J.P. Makeham and L.R. Malcolm

This paper describes and compares the institutional framework of the agricultural credit markets in selected European countries. The institutions can be both formal (rules, regulations, authorities and actors) and informal (norms, values and relations). They also interact and in situations where...

Swedish agricultural policy reform of 1990 constitutes a rare example of a very radical reform of agricultural policy. All internal market regulations were abolished. Farmers were offered only a modest and temporary compensation. Contrary to the reforms of the CAP, the reform was not caused by...