This paper first discusses how to use sustainability as a criterion by which to evaluate agricultural research, then illustrates the difficulties inherent in applying the criterion and finally draws implications for international agricultural research. Seven propositions relating to...

Since high-yielding modern rice varieties (MVs) are adopted only in favorable production environments, significant regional productivity differentials have emerged in Nepal. This study explores the distributional consequences of such differential MV adoption based on an intensive survey of...

Books Reviewed include: Production Rights in European Agriculture by Barthelemy, Denis and Jacques David; The Politics of Precaution: Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries by Robert L. Paarlberg; Indian Agriculture: Four Decades of Development by G.S. Bhalla, Gurmail Singh; The...