The finance sector has a key role to play in allowing agriculture to contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction. A rapidly evolving technological landscape is opening up new possibilities to target and price credit, to share risk, and to harness information technology to expand...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture -- 2 By the Numbers: Economics and Management in Agriculture -- 3 Agricultural Engineers and Industrialization -- 4 Farms as Factories: The Emergence of Large-Scale Farming -- 5 The Campbell...