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Special chapters of The State of Food and Agriculture

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

1958

Food and agricultural developments in Africa south of the Sahara

The growth of forest industries and their impact on the world's forests

1959

Agricultural 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

1960

Programming for agricultural development

1961

Land reform and institutional change

Agricultural extension, education and research in Africa, Asia and Latin America

1962

The role of forest industries in the attack on economic underdevelopment

The livestock industry in less-developed countries

1963

Basic factors affecting the growth of productivity in agriculture

Fertilizer use: spearhead of agricultural development

1964

Protein nutrition: needs and prospects

Synthetics and their effects on agricultural trade

1966

Agriculture and industrialization

Rice in the world food economy

1967

Incentives and disincentives for farmers in developing countries

The management of fishery resources

1968

Raising agricultural productivity in developing countries through technological improvement

Improved storage and its contribution to world food supplies

1969

Agricultural marketing improvement programmes: some lessons from recent experience

Modernizing institutions to promote forestry development

1970

Agriculture at the threshold of the Second Development Decade

1971

Water pollution and its effects on living aquatic resources and fisheries

1972

Education and training for development

Accelerating agricultural research in the developing countries

1973

Agricultural employment in developing countries

1974

Population, food supply and agricultural development

1975

The Second United Nations Development Decade: mid-term review and appraisal

1976

Energy and agriculture

1977

The state of natural resources and the human environment for food and agriculture

1978

Problems and strategies in developing regions

1979

Forestry and rural development

1980

Marine fisheries in the new era of national jurisdiction

1981

Rural poverty in developing countries and means of poverty alleviation

1982

Livestock production: a world perspective

1983

Women in developing agriculture

1984

Urbanization, agriculture and food systems

1985

Energy use in agricultural production

Environmental trends in food and agriculture

Agricultural marketing and development

1986

Financing agricultural development

1987-88

Changing priorities for agricultural science and technology in developing countries

1989

Sustainable development and natural resource management

1990

Structural adjustment and agriculture

1991

Agricultural policies and issues: lessons from the 1980s and prospects for the 1990s

1992

Marine fisheries and the law of the sea: a decade of change

1993

Water policies and agriculture

1994

Forest development and policy dilemmas

1995

Agricultural trade: entering a new era?

1996

Food security: some macroeconomic dimensions

1997

The agroprocessing industry and economic development

1998

Rural non-farm income in developing countries

2000

World food and agriculture: lessons from the past 50 years

2001

Economic impacts of transboundary plant pests and animal diseases

2002

Agriculture and global public goods ten years after the Earth Summit

Selected publications

FAO FLAGSHIP PUBLICATIONS

(available at www.fao.org/sof)

The State of Food and Agriculture
The State of Food Insecurity in the World
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture
State of the World's Forests

AGRICULTURAL AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DIVISION (ESA) PUBLICATIONS

(available at www.fao.org/es/esa)

BOOKS

Food, agriculture and rural development: current and emerging issues for economic analysis and policy research (CUREMIS II)
Vol.1: Latin America and the Caribbean

(B. Davis, ed., 2003)

Nutrition intake and economic growth: studies on the cost of hunger
(Kiyoshi Taniguchi and Xiaojun Wang, eds, 2003)

Choosing a method for poverty mapping
(B. Davis, 2003)

Promoting farm/non-farm linkages for rural development: case studies from Africa and Latin America
(B. Davis, T. Reardon, K.G. Stamoulis and P. Winters, eds, 2002)

Food, agriculture and rural development: current and emerging issues for economic analysis and policy research (CUREMIS I)
(K.G. Stamoulis, ed., 2001)

ESA WORKING PAPERS

05-04

Globalization of Indian diets and the transformation of food supply systems (P. Pingali and Y. Khwaja, February 2004)

04-04

Agricultural policy indicators (T. Josling and A. Valdés, February 2004)

03-04

Resource abundance, poverty and development (E.H. Bulte, R. Damania and R.T. Deacon, January 2004)

02-04

Conflicts, rural development and food security in West Africa (M. Flores, January 2004)

01-04

Valuation methods for environmental benefits in forestry and watershed investment projects (R. Cavatassi, January 2004)

22-03

Linkages and rural non-farm employment creation: changing challenges and policies in Indonesia
(S. Kristiansen, December 2003)

21-03

Information asymmetry and economic concentration: the case of hens and eggs in eastern Indonesia (S. Kristiansen, December 2003)

20-03

Do futures benefit farmers who adopt them? (S.H. Lence, December 2003)

19-03

The economics of food safety in developing countries (S. Henson, December 2003)

18-03

Food security and agriculture in the low income food deficit countries: 10 years after the Uruguay Round (P. Pingali and R. Stringer, November 2003)

17-03

A conceptual framework for national agricultural, rural development, and food security strategies and policies (K.G. Stamoulis and A. Zezza, November 2003)

16-03

Can public transfers reduce Mexican migration? A study based on randomized experimental data (G. Stecklov, P. Winters, M. Stampini and B. Davis, October 2003)

15-03

Diversification in South Asian agriculture: trends and constraints (K. Dorjee, S. Broca and P. Pingali, July 2003)

14-03

Determinants of cereal diversity in communities and on household farms of the northern Ethiopian Highlands (S. Benin, B. Gebremedhin, M. Smale, J. Pender and S. Ehui, July 2003)

13-03

Land use change, carbon sequestration and poverty alleviation (L. Lipper and R. Cavatassi, July 2003)

12-03

Social capital and poverty lessons from case studies in Mexico and Central America (M. Flores and F. Rello, June 2003)



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