In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agricultural situation, each issue of this report since 1957 has included one or more special studies on problems of longer-term interest. Special chapters in earlier issues have covered the following subjects:
1957
Factors influencing the trend of food consumption Postwar changes in some institutional factors affecting agriculture
1958Food and agricultural developments in Africa south of the Sahara The growth of forest industries and their impact on the world's forests
1959Agricultural incomes and levels of living in countries at different stages of economic development Some general problems of agricultural development in less-developed countries in the light of postwar experience
1960Programming for agricultural development
1961Land reform and institutional change Agricultural extension, education and research in Africa, Asia and Latin America
1962The role of forest industries in the attack on economic underdevelopment The livestock industry in less-developed countries
1963Basic factors affecting the growth of productivity in agriculture Fertilizer use: spearhead of agricultural development
1964Protein nutrition: needs and prospects Synthetics and their effects on agricultural trade
1966Agriculture and industrialization Rice in the world food economy
1967Incentives and disincentives for farmers in developing countries The management of fishery resources
1968Raising agricultural productivity in developing countries through technological improvement Improved storage and its contribution to world food supplies
1969Agricultural marketing improvement programmes: some lessons from recent experience Modernizing institutions to promote forestry development
1970Agriculture at the threshold of the Second Development Decade
1971Water pollution and its effects on living aquatic resources and fisheries
1972Education and training for development Accelerating agricultural research in the developing countries
1973Agricultural employment in developing countries
1974Population, food supply and agricultural development
1975The Second United Nations Development Decade: mid-term review and appraisal
1976Energy and agriculture
1977The state of natural resources and the human environment for food and agriculture
1978Problems and strategies in developing regions
1979Forestry and rural development
1980Marine fisheries in the new era of national jurisdiction
1981Rural poverty in developing countries and means of poverty alleviation
1982Livestock production: a world perspective
1983Women in developing agriculture
1984Urbanization, agriculture and food systems
1985Energy use in agricultural production Environmental trends in food and agriculture Agricultural marketing and development
1986Financing agricultural development
1987-88Changing priorities for agricultural science and technology in developing countries
1989Sustainable development and natural resource management
1990Structural adjustment and agriculture
1991Agricultural policies and issues: lessons from the 1980s and prospects for the 1990s
1992Marine fisheries and the law of the sea: a decade of change
1993Water policies and agriculture
1994Forest development and policy dilemmas
1995Agricultural trade: entering a new era?
