Originally published in English in 1957 this book quickly became a classic of comparative agricultural studies. The book brings together a wide range of case studies from the UK, Europe, Africa and South East Asia which together form a broad yet highly detailed view of world agriculture in the 20th Century.
1. Essential Criteria and Agricultural Policies
2. The Equatorial Rain
Forest in the North of the Belgian Congo
3. The Tropical Savanna of Africa
From Chad to the River Casamance
4. The Overpopulated Coastal Plains of
Monsoon Asia in Northern Vietnam
5. Sheep and Cereals Trees and Water in
North Africa
6. Arid Plateaux and Huertas in Spain
7. Overpopulation and
Unemployment in the Italian Countryside
8. Pastoralism Dominant in the Val
DAnniviers in the Swiss Alps
9. The Stubaital in the Tyrolean Alps
10.
Bavarian Agriculture Intensive and Mechanized But Farm Units Too Small
11.
The Belgian Farm Well Kept But Undersized
12. The Recovery of English
Agriculture: Rapid Mechanization
13. Intensification in the Low Countries:
Its Possibilities and Limitations
14. Agrarian Reform in East Germany
15.
Hungary Agriculture in a Peoples Democracy
16. From the Slovak Peasant to
the Czech Co-operative and the Soviet Kolkhoz. Conclusion: Malthusian
Economics Responsible for The Worlds Hunger.
René Dumont was Professor of Agricultural Sciences at the Institut National Agronomigue.
