Overview
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Dennis Tully
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The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Regional Overview Papers
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- Simon Commander, Simon Burgess
Pages 25-47
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- Alan Richards, Ahmed Ramezani
Pages 49-65
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Country Review Papers
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Front Matter
Pages 101-101
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- Haluk Kasnakoglu, Halis Akder, A. Arslan Gurkan
Pages 103-133
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Back Matter
Pages 297-299
About this book
The basic objective of agricultural research at ICARDA is to enhance pro ducer and consumer welfare through increasing the productivity, stability, and profitability of agriculture. Improved practices must be technically, ec onomically, and socially suitable to farmer conditions. The rainfed areas of West Asia and North Africa have highly variable environmental conditions as well as complex social and economic structures. In recent years, the region has been experiencing major changes in the relative availabilities and costs of the classical factors of production: land, labor, and capital. These changes have important implications for the design of new agricultural technology. On the one hand, the availability of labor may be an important factor determining the acceptability of new technology. On the other, it is important to consider the impact that technology can have on rural employment. To develop a better awareness of these issues and their relevance to technology development, ICARD A initiated a project on Agricultural Labor and Tech nological Change. The first stage of the project is published here; it is a review of available literature on selected issues of regional importance, com bined with more detailed analyses of the situations of eight countries with important rainfed agricultural sectors. ICARDA greatly appreciates the financial assistance of the Ford Foun dation, which allowed us to support the execution of the study and publi cation of its findings. We also appreciate the great efforts of the authors in the face of often limited data and facilities.
Reviews
'Overall the text has been skilfully edited and compiled and it provides an indepth background and analysis of the key issues in a very readable forum....it will certainly be of interest to both students and researchers of agriculture in this region.' Biodiversity and Conservation 1:121 1992
Editors and Affiliations
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The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria
Dennis Tully
