Unit One 1
Text:Farm Income Analysis 1
Supplementary Reading:Economics of the Farm System 24
Unit Two 36
Text:The Economics of Small Farm Mechanization 36
Supplementary Reading:Labor Budget 54
Unit Three 62
Text:Family Farms,Cooperatives and Collectives 62
Supplementary Reading:Small Farmers'in China and their Development 76
Unit Four 83
Text:Household Strategies and Rural Livelihood Diversification(Ⅰ) 83
Supplementary Reading:Household Strategies and Rural Livelihood Diversification(Ⅱ) 108
Unit Five 122
Text:Financing Expanded Production 122
Supplementary Reading:Delinquencies and Default Problems 142
Unit Six 151
Text:Rural Credit Markets and Imperfect Information:a New Perspective 151
Supplementary Reading:Information Exchange Networks and Agricultural Development 166
Unit Seven 178
Text:Agricultural Trade Reform,Price Stability and the Impact on Developing Countries 178
Supplementary Reading:Examination of Proposals for Tariffi-cation and Disciplines on Subsidies and Quantitative Controls Currently under Negotiation 192
Unit Eight 204
Text:Economic Planning from Above and Below 204
Supplementary Reading:Agricultural Growth is a Prerequisite for Rural Development 224
Unit Nine 235
Text:Extension Experiences in Agriculture and Rural Resource Management in the 1980s and 1990s 235
Supplementary Reading:Extension Methods 252
Unit Ten 264
Text:Four Approaches to Rural Development 264
Supplementary Reading:The Community Development Approaches to Rural Development 281
Unit Eleven 290
Text:Challenges to Agricultural Extension in the Twenty-first Century 290
Supplementary Reading:The Agricultural Extension Worker 304
Unit Twelve 316
Text:Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development(Ⅰ) 316
Supplementary Reading:Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development(Ⅱ) 332
Unit Thirteen 339
Text:The First of All Imperatives:Banish Hunger in Our Time 339
Supplementary Reading:More Jobs Mean More Meals 355
Unit Fourteen 362
Text:Strategies for Food-and Nutrition Security at Household Level(Ⅰ) 362
Supplementary Reading:Strategies for Food-and Nutrition Security at Household Level(Ⅱ) 377
Unit Fifteen 387
Text:Food Security,Only a Women's Job? 387
Supplementary Reading:Women Feed the World 402
Unit Sixteen 417
Text:Women's Contribution to Animal Production and Husbandry 417
Supplementary Reading:The Role of Animal Production in World Agriculture 433
Unit Seventeen 444
Text:The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Low-income,Food-deficit Countries 444
Supplementary Reading:Food Security and Compensation:The Role of the GATT 459
Unit Eighteen 469
Text:Is China Living on the Water Margin?(Ⅰ) 469
Supplementary Reading:Is China Living on the Water Margin?(Ⅱ) 487
Unit Nineteen 494
Text:Population Growth,Agricultural Intensification,Induced Innovation and Natural Resources Sustainability:An App-lication of Neoclassical Growth Theory 494
Supplementary Reading:Environmental Auditing in Agriculture:Pipe-dream or Practical Tool? 505
Unit Twenty 518
Text:Firm Resources,Industrial Organization and Austrian Economics:The Bases for a New Strategic Management Approach to Competitiveness 518
Supplementary Reading:Microcomputers in Support of the Generation and Diffusion of Agricultural Technologies in Developing Countries 531
Unit Twenty-one 542
Text:Fairness,Stewardship and Sustainable Development 542
Supplementary Reading:Toward Some Operational Principles of Sustainable Development 556
Unit Twenty-two 564
Text:Agriculture and the Wealth of Nations 564
Supplementary Reading:The Farmer as an Innovative Survivor 582
KEY TO THE EXCERCISES 593
Appendix Ⅰ GLOSSARY 631
Appendix Ⅱ PROPER NAMES 654
Appendix Ⅲ SPECIALIZED TERMS AND EXPRESSIONS 657