Originally published in 1987, this book is written primarily for planners, public administrators and project managers in countries or international agencies considering a development strategy in which agribusiness and rural enterprise projects are viewed as a desirable policy instrument for generating employment and income. It makes available the background and methodology of project analysis so that agribusiness and rural enterprise project can be designed, implemented and reviewed effectively in a wide range of circumstances. It outlines how to establish objectively the potential and limitations of agribusiness and rural enterprise projects; provides guidelines for deciding whether a project can be effective; considers the policy issues relating to such projects and suggests techniques for judging project performance.
Originally published in 1962, this book deals with agricultural policies and politics in Britain between 1945 and 1961. The distinctive feature of this period was agricultural partnership a close and pervasive pattern of co-operation between the Government and the principal agricultural organizations.
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Reviews of the Original Edition of The State and the Farmer:
Eminently readable and is the result of voluminous and painstaking research. It makes good use of original sources of information, both written and oral, and is well documented. It will be of great value to present and future students of the economic, social and political history of farming. Agriculture
Nothing is left hidden from view and the post-war development of agricultural policy, the growth of organization within the industry, and the relationship of the three partners with the Government are laid bare here with crystal clarity Country Landowner
A first-class book that draws together the threads of British agricultural policy The Listener.
1. Agriculture and the State
2. Farmers United
3. The Quest for
Stability
4. Marketing Monopolies
5. The Birth in the Cupboard
6. Partnership
in the Field
7. The Workers Place in the Sun
8. Gentlemen, Limited
9. The
Politics of Agriculture
10. Agriculture and the Public Interest. Appendix: A:
Government Support to Agriculture (1959-60) B: Supervision and Dispossession
C: Landlords Control of Tenants D: The Farmers Vote E: Note on Sources.
Peter Self was a journalist, academic and planning policy-maker. Herbert J. Storing was Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, USA.
