1. From the editor

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 5

2. International technical interventions in agriculture and rural development: Some basic trends, issues, and questions

   • George H. Axinn

   Articles Pages: 6 - 15

3. Technology transfer: Institutions, models, and impacts on agriculture and rural life in the developing world

   • Joseph J. Molnar
   • Curtis M. Jolly

   Articles Pages: 16 - 23

4. Farming systems approaches to international technical cooperation in agriculture and rural life

   • Cornelia Butler Flora

   Articles Pages: 24 - 34

5. The political economy of fisheries development in the third world

   • Conner Bailey

   Articles Pages: 35 - 48

6. Great planting disasters: Pitfalls in technical assistance in forestry

   • Louise Fortmann

   Articles Pages: 49 - 60

7. Fairness in irrigation development

   • E. Walter Coward Jr.

   Articles Pages: 61 - 68

8. Gender related issues in international development assistance for agriculture and rural life

   • Nancy W. Axinn

   Articles Pages: 69 - 76

9. Historical forces in world agriculture and the changing role of international development assistance

   • G. Edward Schuh

   Articles Pages: 77 - 91

10. Structural and technical development in agriculture: An international overview

    • Alessandro Bonanno

    Articles Pages: 92 - 100

11. Ethical and value issues in international agricultural research

    • Kenneth A. Dahlberg

    Articles Pages: 101 - 111

12. The cultural ecology of development: Ten precepts for survival

    • Billie R. DeWalt

    Articles Pages: 112 - 123

13. Book reviews

    • George H. Axinn
    • Shelley Feldman
    • Robert Lawless

    BookReview Pages: 124 - 168