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This book examines the components of Indonesia''s rice policy to help policymakers, analysts, and observers sort out the pros and cons of alternative courses of action. Containing the results of the Food Research Institute''s third multiyear research project on Indonesian food policy, the book combines new field-based empirical evidence on rice farming profitability and rural employment and wages with long experience in analyzing Indonesian food policy issues and the international market for rice.

A catalogue of postmarks used on mail posted at congresses, exhibitions, shows etc, and for anniversaries from 1963-1983.

Introduction to food policy analysis; Analysis of food consumption and nutrition; Analysis of food production systems; Marketing functions, markets, and food price formation; Macroeconomic policies and the food system; Macro food policy.

This procedural guide provides the U.S. Army Terrain Analyst with the necessary step-by-step procedures to be used in generation of vegetation factor overlays and supportive data tables. Three potential sources of information on vegetation are considered: (1) military topographic maps, (2) literature, and (3) aerial imagery. Procedures are presented for each of 13 data elements that characterize vegetation of the geographic area of interest. The included appendixes provide the Terrain Analyst with additional reference information. (Author).

Monographic compilation of case studies to illustrate the interrelationships between commodity exports and economic development in Africa south of Sahara - analyses the role of export oriented industries in several countries, and includes government policy implications with regard to export promotion, etc. References and statistical tables.