Introduction -- Environmental education : problems and possible solutions -- The meaning of economy and ecology -- Scientific logos and ignorance -- The essence logos -- The existence logos -- Forms of knowledge and the economic dynamics -- The term nature and the three purposes of life --...

Over the past three decades, agricultural credit has received considerable attention in low income countries as governments have tried to stimulate output and help the rural poor through credit. Recent analyses, however, reveal major problems in many agricultural credit programmes. Cheap credit...

Interest rates on formal agncultural loans m most low income countries are less than rates of inflation and below rates charged on commercial loans. Many development economists have criticized cheap credit because they felt it induced farmers to use too much capital (such as tractors) at the...