Promoting Third-World Development and Food Security

by Donald McClelland, Luther G. Tweeten

Overview

Experts from inside and outside the USAID program evaluate the effectiveness of governmental intervention aimed at ensuring adequate agricultural production and food security in Third-World nations. They consider in depth the question of how best to assure food security with the least amount of investment of scarce resources, looking in particular at the results of the $1 billion annual expenditure on Third-World agriculture by the USAID program.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275958152
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/25/1997
Series:	Contributions to the Study of
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

LUTHER G. TWEETEN is Anderson Professor of Agricultural Marketing, Policy, and Trade at the Ohio State University. Dr. Tweeten is coauthor, with Tesfa G. Gebremedhin, of Research Methods and Communication in the Social Sciences (Praeger, 1994).

DONALD G. MCCLELLAND is an economist with twenty-two years of experience with USAID. Mr. McClelland has worked for sixteen years with the USAID's policy office as a policy advisor and economic analyst for food and agriculture.

Table of Contents

Investments in Agriculture: Synthesis and Overview by Donald G. McClelland
Investments in Agriculture: Agricultural Policy Reform and Planning by Scott Simons and Lawrence Kent
Agricultural Technology Development and Diffusion: A Synthesis of the Literature by James Oehmke
Issues of Infrastructure Development by Raisuddin Ahmed and Cynthia Donavan
Issues in Providing Agricultural Services in Developing Countries by Richard Meyer and Donald Larson
Asset Distribution and Access: Land Tenure Programs by Virginia Lambert and Mitchell A. Seligson
Investing in People by Luther G. Tweeten
Sustainable Agriculture by Donald G. McClelland
Food Security by Luther G. Tweeten

Editorial Reviews

Nine chapters, prepared by researchers and administrators in the field of development aid and scholars of political science and economy provide a thorough evaluation of the payoff from public intervention to promote food security and agricultural development in developing countries. Topics include investments in agriculture; policy reform and planning; agricultural technology development and diffusion; infrastructural development; the provision of agricultural services in developing countries; asset distribution and access in land tenure programs; investment in people; investing to protect the environment of agriculture; and food security. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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