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Special chapters 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: midterm 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