Food Security, Diversification, and Resource Management Refocusing the Role of Agriculture? : Proceedings of the Twenty-third International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Held at Sacramento, California, 10-16 August, 1997

Proceedings of an August 1997 conference, addressing important research and policy issues likely to challenge the global food and agriculture system in the 21st century. Topics include security and demand challenges, global and national policy issues, household consumption, agricultural diversification and new technology, resource management in agriculture, economics of policy and institutional change, changing diets, countries in transition, and trade and trade effects. Includes panel discussion reports, discussion group and mini- symposium reports, and poster paper abstracts. Peters is affiliated with the University of Oxford, England, and von Braun is affiliated with the University of Bonn, Germany. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.