The Consultative Groups on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) funds a decentralized system of International Agricultural Research Centers. To monitor the Centers, the CGIAR has instituted a system of program and management reviews. But there is some controversy concerning the proper...

Books reviewed include: The Green Revolution Reconsidered: The Impact of High Yielding Rice Varieties in South India by Peter B.R. Hazell and C. Ramasamy; Disarray in World Food Markets: A Quantitative Assessment by Rod Tyers and Kym Anderson; The World Food Problem: Tackling the Causes of...

A number of agricultural resource, environmental and health concerns will condition the capacity of the agricultural sector in both developed and developing countries to increase production in the coming century. These concerns give rise to four generic issues: (a) Many of the issues are...

Can Productivity Growth in Agriculture be Continued?

It has generally been assumed that the inferences of the induced technical change model with respect to the direction of technical change could not be expected to hold for the centrally planned economies. In this paper we test three hypotheses generated from the induced technical change...