Books reviewed include: Environmental Economics: Policies for Environmental Management and Sustainable Development by Clem Tisdell and Edward Elgar; The Political Economy of Food and Nutrition Policies; The Agricultural Transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R.: A World...

Purpose – The poor performance of public agricultural extension systems in developing countries engendered interest in pluralistic concepts of extension involving a variety of service providers. Within the reform agenda, modalities relying on private-sector providers were perceived as a path...