Types of rural economy : studies in world agriculture
1957, First Edition. London : Methuen. Near fine cloth copy in a good if slightly edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #394790
Physical Description: xii, 556 pages : maps ; 23 cm. Notes: Translation of Économie agricole dans le monde; Includes bibliographical references. Contents: 1. Essential criteria and agricultural policies. -2. The equatorial rain forest in the north of the Belgian Congo. [rainforest] -3. The tropical savannah of Africa from Chad to the River Casamance. -4. The overpopulated coastal plains of monsoon Asia in northern Vietnam. 5. Sheep and cereals, tress and water in north Africa . -6. Arid plateaux and 'huertas' in Spain. -7. Overpopulation and unemployment in the Italian countryside. 8. Pastoralism dominant in the Val D'Annivers in the Swiss Alps. -9. The stubaital in the Tyrolean Alps, Cultivation modernized. 10. Bavarian agriculture -- intensive and mechanized, but farm units too small. -11. The Belgian farm -- well kept but undersized. -12. The recovery of English agriculture; rapid mechanization. -13. Intensification in the Low Countries: its possibilities and limitations. -14. Agrarian reform in East Germany. -15. Hungary -- agriculture in a people's democracy. -15. From Slovak peasant to the Czech co-operative and the Soviet 'Kolkhoz'. Conclusion: Malthusian economics responsible for the World's hunger. Subjects: Agriculture Economic aspects; Townscapes Painting; Agriculture Economics.
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