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Polly Hill, Dry grain farming families: Hausaland (Nigeria) and Karnataka (India) compared, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 338 pp., £25.00 hard covers, £9.95 paperback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Barbara Harriss
Barbara Harriss
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Africa , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , January 1983 , pp. 84 - 87
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Copyright © International African Institute 1983

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1 ICRISAT. 1980. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Socioeconomic Constraints to Development of Semi Arid Tropical Agriculture, 1979. Hyderabad: ICRISAT.Google Scholar

2 There are over thirty relevant papers in the series Economics Program Working Papers and Economics Program Occasional Papers.

3 For example, see Rastogi, B. K., and Reddy, Y. V. R. 1982. A Study on Farm Structures in Dry Farming Areas. ICAR/Delhi; AICRPDA/Hyderabad.Google Scholar

4 Nadkarni, M. V. 1976. ‘Tenants from the dominant class: a developing contradiction in land reforms,’ Economic and Political Weekly 11, 52, pp. A137–A146.Google Scholar

5 Nadkarni, M. V. 1980. Marketable Surplus and Market Dependence in a Millet Region. Delhi: Allied.Google Scholar

6 Nadkarni, M. V. 1979. ‘Marketable surplus, market dependence and economic development,’ Social Scientist 83, pp. 35–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

7 See the critique in Harriss, J. 1982. Capitalism and Peasant Farming, Bombay, O.U.P.Google Scholar, and the results there and also in Harriss, B. 1982. ‘Exchange relations and Poverty in Dryland Agriculture,’ Report to ESCOR of the Overseas Development Administration, London.Google Scholar

8 Jodha, N. S. 1969. ‘Drought and scarcity in Rajasthan desert: some basic issues,’ Economic and Political Weekly 4, 16Google Scholar; id., 1977a. ‘Role of Credit in Farmers' Adjustment against Risk in Arid and Semi-arid Areas of India,’ Economics Program, ICRISAT, Hyderabad; id., 1977b. ‘Effectiveness of Fanners' Adjustment to Risk,’ Economics Program, ICRISAT, Hyderabad.

9 See Gore, C. 1978. ‘The terms of trade of food producers as a mechanism of rural differentiation,’ Bulletin of the Institute of Development Studies, pp. 20—4Google Scholar; and Rahman, A. 1981. ‘Variations in terms of exchange and their impact on farm households in Bangladesh,’ Journal of Development Studies, pp. 317–35.Google Scholar