Op basis van ruim dertig interviews wordt beschreven welke kwaliteiten de bewoners van de Bollenstreek toekennen aan het landschap in hun omgeving, welke veranderingen ze constateren en wat hun ideeën zijn over de inpasbaarheid van stedelijke ontwikkelingen. Ook wordt ingegaan op de betekenis van de Bollenstreek voor het toerisme. De bestedingen van bezoekers aan de Bollenstreek en de daarmee samenhangende werkgelegenheid zijn geraamd. Ook wordt aandacht besteed aan de relatie met het imago van Nederland in het buitenland.

The mission was in accordance with Programme Element 20.48 of the approved United Nations Regular Programme for Technical Cooperation for the 1994-1995 Biennium which calls for the provision of advisory services and training to member countries and inter-governmental organizations in support of their efforts at developing their agricultural support services.

This Policy Paper identifies the role of agriculture and natural resources research (Chapter II); review the Bank's research experience (Chapter III); identifies the developmental issues and research challenges faced by the Bank (Chapter IV); indicates where research can contribute meaningfully (Chapter V); and concludes with recommendations on the priorities and approaches the Bank should adopt in supporting agriculture and natural resources research (Chapter VI).

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By and large, it appears that the goals of agricultural reform are being met in Mexico. But measures such as decoupling income supports and price supports or reorienting research and extension could help farmers who cannot afford access to machinery and purchased inputs and services.Lopez, Nash, and Stanton report the results of a study of Mexican farm households using 1991 survey data and a smaller resurvey of some of the same households in 1993.One study goal was to empirically examine the relationship between assets and the output supply function.

For 25 years, agricultural growth has been a key source of the growth in Pakistan's GDP, but the momentum may be running out. Key problems include a crisis in irrigation and the government's overextended role in agriculture. An example of inappropriate government intervention is the provision of subsidies that do not help farmers, either because of rent seeking and inefficiency or because the subsidy (for wheat, for example) helps consumers at the expense of producers.

Commercial farms in South Africa could become significantly more efficient if they became smaller. The government could encourage that trend by removing policies and distortions that favor large over small farms.Drawing on international evidence, van Zyl, Binswanger, and Thirtle discuss the sources of economies of scale.

Apparently factor prices do matter in agricultural production and in the selection of production technology. And in South Africa, more attention should be focused on the technological needs of small scale farmers.

The Agricultural Perspective Plan (APP) is a national strategy with a cross-sectoral approach with a duration of twenty years (1995-2015). Its goal is to add two percentage points to the country’s agricultural growth which would expand per capita agricultural growth sixfold, from its current 0.5% to 3% per year. The APP strategy is based on the acceleration of the agricultural growth rate sufficiently to obtrain strong multiplier effect on growth in employment, both in agriculture itself and in nonagricultural sectors.

A large body of literature makes the argument that commercialization of agriculture has mainly negative effects on the employment, incomes, food production and consumption, health, and nutrition of the poor. In Commercialization of Agriculture, Economic Development, and Nutrition, Joachim von Braun and Eileen Kennedy find that the conclusion that commercialization of agriculture is generally bad for nutrition is flawed.