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Ever since I started teaching agricultural development classes, I have been looking for an undergraduate textbook that provides the basic facts of agricultural and economic development, is analytical in character and comprehensive with regard to the issues presented. After reading through the book by Norton, Alwang and Masters, I think I might have finally found it. The book starts with a thorough discussion of the basic issues of agricultural development and world food security, including issues related to hunger and malnutrition, population growth and its determinants and the economics of food demand. A second part is devoted to development theories and the role of agriculture in the development process. Part 3 focuses on agricultural systems and resource use in the course of economic development. Part 4 deals with how the sources of agricultural growth typically change in the course of economic development, which role agricultural research and education play and how technological and institutional change is generated. Moreover, issues of markets and prices are analysed where particular emphasis is placed on land, labour, credit and other input markets. In addition, price formation in food markets is discussed, together with how pricing policies may affect the performance of these markets. In part 5, the international aspects of agricultural development are analysed, including trade, trade policy, macroeconomic and monetary policies, capital mobility and foreign development assistance.
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