The process of economic development depends on the modernization of agriculture.
Agriculture and the State responds to this historical lesson by examining government …

Emphasizing the linkage between agriculture and economic development, the book
examines the critical role of agriculture in promoting economic development in the Third …

The governments of today's industrial countries distort their economies by protecting their
farmers. Governments of developing countries, by taxing their farmers heavily, distort their …

Prepared under the aegis of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO), this text presents a fresh and comprehensive look at agricultural development policy …

Factors influencing agricultural progress in developing countries are discussed. All papers
except the first are followed by critical comments by one or two other experts. Titles of the …

My intention is to explain how rapid agricultural growth accelerates the economic
transformation to a modern economy and most important why it is the prime instrument for …

The book grew out of a post-graduate course at Michigan State University, and aims to bring
together the different theoretical and empirical views of agricultural development which …

This paper reviews three stages of thought about the role of agriculture in economic
development. The first, dating back to the 1950s and 1960s but having its origins in Soviet …

Abstract While both Malthus and Ricardo viewed agriculture as impediments to economic
progress, Mill and Marshall argued that the effects of diminishing returns to land could be …