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序言
前言
Unit One
Text: Farm Income Analysis
Supplementary Reading: Economics of the Farm System
Unit Two
Text: The Economics of Small Farm Mechanization
Supplementary Reading: Labor Budget
Unit Three
Text: Family Farms, Cooperatiyes and Collectives
Supplementary Reading: Small Farmers' in China and their Development
Unit Four
Text: Household Strategies and Rural Livelihood Diversification ( I )
Supplementary Reading: Household Strategies and Rural Livelihood Diversification ( Ⅱ )
Unit Five
Text: Financing Expanded Production
Supplementary Reading: Delinquencies and Default Problems
Unit Six
Text: Rural Credit Markets and Imperfect Information: a New Perspective
Supplementary Reading: Information Exchange Networks and Agricultural Development
Unit Seven
Text: Agricultural Trade Reform, Price Stability and the Impact on Developing Countries
Supplementary Reading: Examination of Proposals for Tariffication and Disciplines on Subsidies and Quantitative Controls Currently under Negotiation
Unit Eight
Text: Economic Planning from Above and Below
Supplementary Reading: Agricultural Growth is a Prerequisite for Rural Development
Unit Nine
Text: Extension Experiences in Agriculture and Rural Resource Management in the 1980s and 1990s
Supplementary Reading: Extension Methods
Unit Ten
Text: Four Approaches to Rural Development
Supplementary Reading: The Community Development Approaches to Rural Development
Unit Eleven.
Text: Challenges to Agricultural Extension in the Twenty-first Century
Supplementary Reading: The Agricultural Extension Worker
Unit Twelve
Text: Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development ( I )
Supplementary Reading: Agricultural Transformation and Rural Development ( Ⅱ )
Unit Thirteen
Text: The First of All Imperatives: Banish Hunger in Our Time
Supplementary Reading: More Jobs Mean More Meals
Unit Fourteen
Text: Strategies for Food-and Nutrition Security at Household Level ( I )
Supplementary Reading: Strategies for Food-and Nutrition Security at Household Level ( Ⅱ )
Unit Fifteen
Text: Food-Security, Only a Women's Job?
Supplementary Reading, Women Feed the World
Unit Sixteen
Text: Women's Contribution to Animal Production and Husbandry
Supplementary Reading: The Role of Animal Production in World Agriculture
Unit Seventeen
Text: The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Low-income, Food- deficit Countries
Supplementary Reading: Food Security and Compensation, The Role of the GATT
Unit Eighteen
Text: Is China Living on the Water Margin? ( I )
Supplementary Reading: Is China Living on the Water Margin?
Unit Nineteen
Text: Population Growth, Agricultural Intensification, Induced Innovation and Natural Resources Sustainability: An Application of Neoclassical Growth Theory
Supplementary Reading: Environmental Auditing in Agriculture, Pipe- dream or Practical Tool?
Unit Twenty
Text: Firm Resources, Industrial Organization and Austrian Economi The Bases for a New Strategic Management Approach to Competitiveness
Supplementary Reading. Microcomputers in Support of the Generation and Diffusion of Agricultural Technologies in Developing Countries
Unit Twenty-one
Text. Fairness, Stewardship and Sustainable Development
Supplementary Reading: Toward Some Operational Principles of Sustainable Development
Unit Twenty-two
Text: Agriculture and the Wealth of Nations
Supplementary Reading: The Farmer as an Innovative Survivor
KEY TO THE EXCERCISES
Appendix I GLOSSARY
Appendix Ⅱ PROPER NAMES
Appendix Ⅲ SPECIALIZED TERMS AND EXPRESSIONS