Reviews

Philip Raikes, Modernising Hunger: Famine, Food Surplus & Farm Policy,James Currey for Catholic Institute for International Relations, London, 1989; hb £25, pb £9.95.

Food and Agriculture Organisation of the the United Nations, African Agriculture: the Next 25 Years, Rome, 1986; The World Bank, Poverty and Hunger: Issues and Options for Food Security in Developing Countries,IBRD/The World Bank, Washington, D.C.1986.

Mechanization and Maize: Agriculture and the Politics of Technology Transfer in East Africa by Constance G. Anthony (New York, Columbia University Press, 1988) xiv + 178pp ISBN 0 231 06596 5 hb; Agricultural Mechanization and the Evolution of Farming Systems in East Africaby Prabu Prabhu Pingali, Yves Bigot and Hans P. Binswanger (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins (for the World Bank), 1987) viii + 216pp, ISBN 0 8018 3502 X, $14.50 hb.