World Agriculture in Disarray [Paperback]

Revised and updated, this edition makes use of new empirical material to examine the effect of market and trade restrictions on farm people. It argues that these policies have little or no effect on the welfare of such communities.Politics and economics and farmers; farm and trade policies of the industrial countries; present state of disarray; agricultural change; agriculture must change; agricultural prices and the use of resources; world prices for farm products - real or fictitious?; world food adequacy and security; who gains from agricultural protection?; what difference does trade make?; limited achievement of farm policy objectives; new directions for agricultural policy in the industrial countries; negotiations for freer trade in agricultural products.