In the past, a rather late realization of acute and large-scale food shortages often contributed to insufficient preventive or remedial action. Against this backround a Working Party set up by the FAO Committee on World Food Security has suggested a number of "objective indicators" which are...

Bangladesh is handicapped by very unfavourable natural conditions, inter alia extreme floods and droughts, an unfavourable pattern of farm sizes and the consequences of rising oil prices. For these reasons agricultural production lagged behind the planned targets in the first two years of the...

Hauptzielrichtung des Arbeitskreises ist die Suche nach tragfähigen Ansätzen für eine regionale Entwicklung in ländlichen Räumen, die ökologischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Aspekten gleichermaßen Rechnung trägt. Der Arbeitskreis hat sich bei seinen Arbeiten auf ein "moderates" Konzept...

[eng] On the basis of theoretical models and statistical material on the EEC's foreign trade, the authors analyse the relative development of the EEC's agricultural imports from developing countries, as compared to that of agricultural imports from developed third countries. They show how the...