Synopses & Reviews
This volume is a compilation of essays that reviews the current status of agricultural progress in Latin America and evaluates its prospects into the 1990s. Various experts on Latin American affairs offer analyses that examine how economic and political changes over the past two decades, both regional and worldwide, have resulted in an imbalance between stagnation of output growth and modernization. Convinced that stability is vital to agricultural prosperity within the region, this study defines the major obstacles to this goal and develops new strategies to successfully meet the challenge.
Although the work's identification of the issues that are common to the entire geographical area is of significant value, the author of each essay brings his unique experience within the particular country to the study, resulting in a review of the diverse agricultural conditions that exist in each country, thereby hoping to stimulate further debate over their specific management. Each chapter studies a different country with reference to prices, technology, government policies, land tenure, and labor markets. The effect of increased democratization and the continuing changes within the major nations of the world figure prominently, and together with numerous illustrative tables, the articles provide up-to-date data that help discern current trends in agricultural growth both within each state and the entire region.
Synopsis
The authors, all experts on Latin American affairs, examine how economic and political changes over the past two decades, both regional and worldwide, have impacted agricultural development within the region.
Synopsis
This volume is a compilation of essays on the current status of agricultural progress in Latin America and evaluates its prospects into the 1990s. The authors, all experts on Latin American affairs, examine how economic and political changes over the past two decades, both regional and worldwide, have impacted agricultural development within the region. Present trends in growth are discerned and detailed data presented in an effort to define the major obstacles to agricultural stability within the region and to propose new strategies to successfully meet the current challenge within this rapidly changing area of the world.
About the Author
MICHAEL J. TWOMEY is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.ANN HELWEGE is Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Michael J. Twomey and Ann Helwege
The Substitution among Grains in Latin America by David Barkin, Rosemary L. Batt, and Billie R. DeWalt
Social and Technological Transformations of the Argentine Pampa by Osvaldo Barsky
Colombian Agriculture in the 1980s by R. Albert Berry
The Agrarian Disaster in Mexico, 1982-1989 by Jose Luis Calva
Agriculture, Export Diversification, and the Environment in Central America by Cameron Duncan
Heterodoxy and Agricultural Development: The Recent Peruvian Experience by Raul Hopkins
Chilean Agriculture and Economic Policy, 1974-86 by Oscar Munoz and Hugo Ortega
External Adjustment and Agriculture in Brazil by Gervasio Castro de Rezende
Agricultural Performance in a Small Petroleum-Exporting Country: Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s by David W. Schodt
The Organization and Performance of Cuban Agriculture by Andrew Zimbalist and Claes Brundenius
Further Reading
Index