Chapter 16: Agriculture
Chapter Outline
- Agriculture’s Role in Economic Development
- Self-Sufficiency and Dwindling World Food Supplies
- Food Supply and Famine
- Land Tenure and Reform
- Patterns of Land Tenure
- Tenure and Incentive
- Land Reform
- The Politics of Land Reform
- Land Reform Productivity
- Land Reform and Income Distribution
- Technology of Agricultural Production
- Traditional Agriculture
- Slash-and-Burn Cultivation
- The Shortening of Fallow
- Farming within a Fixed Technology
- Modernizing Agricultural Technology
- The Mechanical Package
- The Biological Package and the Green Revolution
- Mobilization of Agricultural Inputs
- Rural Public Works Projects
- Rural Banking and Micro Credit
- Extension Services
- The Development of Rural Markets
- Agricultural Price Policy
- The Multiple Role of Prices
- The Impact of Subsidies
- Overvalued Exchange Rates
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