Books Reviewed include: Management of Shared Groundwater Resources: The Israeli-Palestinian Case with an International Perspective by Eran Peitelson and Marwan Haddad; Rural planning and management by Joe Morris, Alison Bailey, R. Kerry Turner and Ian J. Bateman; Rural Financial Markets in Asia:...

The paper investigates geo-physical, agro-ecological, and socio-economic determinants of past land use change in two districts of Dak Lak province in the Central Highlands of Vietnam and assesses the influence of rural development policies on land cover change. Landsat satellite images from the...

In Malawi, maize is the major crop and food staple. Given limited off-farm employment opportunities, much-needed increases in household income for improving food security must come from gains in agricultural productivity through better technology and more profitable crops. In the past, hybrid...