Each year, heads of agricultural economics as the number of SY's in the biological and departments meet to discuss mutual issues physical sciences in 1940-41, but the proporrelated to our teaching, extension, and retion was only 10.8 percent in 1970-71. search programs. A major continuing issue is Halvorson [1, p. 18] summarized his concerns our portion of research and extension fundsabout the ...

By W. H. BLACK, senior animal husbandman, and R. L. HINER, assistant animal husbandman, Animal Husbandry Division, Bureau of Animal Industry; L. B. BTJRK, marketing specialist, Agricultural Marketing Service; LUCY M. ALEXANDER, associate specialist in foods, Foods and Nutrition Division, Bureau of Home Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, and C. V. WILSON, associate animal husban...

*PhD student in the Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. **Assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at the Ohio State University. Correspondence: Abdoul G. Sam, Agricultural Administration Building, Room # 238, The Ohio State University, 2120 Fyffe Rd, Columbus, OH 43210, Email: [email protected], Phone: (614) 247-8647, Fax: (61...

The theory of neoclassical welfare economics largely shaped international and national agricultural policies during the Cold War period. It treated technology as an exogenous factor that could boost agricultural productivity but not necessarily sustainable agriculture. New growth theory, the economic theory of the new knowledge economy, treats technological change as endogenous and argues that ...