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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
1994 Forest development and policy dilemmas