SPECIAL CHAPTERS

In addition to the usual review of the recent world food and agricultural situation, each issue of this report since 1957 has included one or more special studies on problems of longer-term interest. Special chapters in earlier issues have covered the following subjects:

1957

Factors influencing the trend of food consumption
Postwar changes in some institutional factors affecting agriculture

1958

Food and agricultural developments in Africa south of the Sahara
The growth of forest industries and their impact on the world's forests

1959

Agricultural incomes and levels of living in countries at different stages of economic development
Some general problems of agricultural development in less-developed countries in the light of postwar experience

1960

Programming for agricultural development

1961

Land reform and institutional change
Agricultural extension, education and research in Africa, Asia and Latin America

1962

The role of forest industries in the attack on economic underdevelopment
The livestock industry in less-developed countries

1963

Basic factors affecting the growth of productivity in agriculture
Fertilizer use: spearhead of agricultural development

1964

Protein nutrition: needs and prospects
Synthetics and their effects on agricultural trade

1966

Agriculture and industrialization
Rice in the world food economy

1967

Incentives and disincentives for farmers in developing countries
The management of fishery resources

1968

Raising agricultural productivity in developing countries through technological improvement
Improved storage and its contribution to world food supplies

1969

Agricultural marketing improvement programmes: some lessons from recent experience
Modernizing institutions to promote forestry development

1970

Agriculture at the threshold of the Second Development
Decade

1971

Water pollution and its effects on living aquatic resources and fisheries

1972

Education and training for development
Accelerating agricultural research in the developing countries

1973

Agricultural employment in developing countries

1974

Population, food supply and agricultural development

1975

The Second United Nations Development Decade: mid-term review and appraisal

1976

Energy and agriculture

1977

The state of natural resources and the human environment for food and agriculture

1978

Problems and strategies in developing regions

1979

Forestry and rural development

1980

Marine fisheries in the new era of national jurisdiction

1981

Rural poverty in developing countries and means of poverty alleviation

1982

Livestock production: a world perspective

1983

Women in developing agriculture

1984

Urbanization, agriculture and food systems

1985

Energy use in agricultural production
Environmental trends in food and agriculture
Agricultural marketing and development

1986

Financing agricultural development

1987-88

Changing priorities for agricultural science and technology in developing countries

1989

Sustainable development and natural resource management

1990

Structural adjustment and agriculture

1991

Agricultural policies and issues: lessons from the 1980s and prospects for the 1990s

1992

Marine fisheries and the law of the sea: a decade of change

FAO Economic and Social Development Papers

84	Measures of protection: methodology, economic interpretation and policy relevance (1989)
90	The impact of stabilization and structural adjustment policies on the rural sector - case-studies of Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Liberia, Zambia and Morocco (1991)
95	Guidelines for monitoring the impact of structural adjustment programmes on the agricultural sector (1990)
96	The effects of trade and exchange rate policies on production incentives in agriculture (1990)
98	Institutional changes in agricultural product and input markets and their impact on agricultural performance (1991)
99	Agricultural labour markets and structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa (1991)
103	The impact of structural adjustment on smallholders (1992)
104	Structural adjustment policy sequencing in sub-Saharan Africa (1991)
105	The role of public and private agents in the food and agricultural sectors of developing countries (1991)
107	Land reform and structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa: controversies and guidelines (1992) (French translation in preparation)
110	Agricultural sustainability: definition and implications for agricultural and trade policy (1992)
115	Design of poverty alleviation strategy in rural areas (1993)

In preparation:

· International agreements for the protection of environmental and agricultural resources: an economics perspective

· Structural adjustment and agriculture: a comparative analysis of African and Asian experience

· A multidisciplinary analysis of local-level management of environmental resources

· Analysing the effects of liberalization scenarios in North-South production and trade patterns using the computable general equilibrium model

· Growth theories, old and new, and the role of agriculture in economic development