1: Agricultural technology in a development context 2: Agricultural technology: Contemporary issues and opportunities for the World Bank, J R Anderson 3: Beyond the Green Revolution: Agricultural development strategy into the new century, Y Hayami and K Otsuka 4: Investment issues for agricultural research: National and international 5: World Bank investment in agricultural research policy and strategy: Past and future, A J Pritchard 6: Distortions in prices and agricultural research investments, J M Alston and P G Pardey 7: A view of quintessential international agricultural research, D L Winkelmann 8: Ecoregional basis for international research development, A F McCalla 9: Building effective agricultural research capacity: The African challenge, J K Lynam and M J Blackie 10: Reviving the National Agricultural Research System of Mexico, J McIntire 11: The World Bank experience with NARS building, D L Purcell 12: Agricultural technology transfer: Concepts, experience and issues 13: Analyzing the transfer of agricultural technology, R E Evenson 14: Transfer of plant cultivars: Seeds, sectors and society, D G Dalrymple and J P Srivastava 15: Technology transfer systems for improved crop management: Lessons for the future, D Byerlee 16: The World Bank's role in soil-management technology transfer, J Smyle, R Grimshaw and W B Magrath 17: Changing private and public roles in technological development: Lessons from the Chilean fruit sector, L S Jarvis 18: Agricultural technology transfer: Perspectives and case studies involving livestock, T R Preston and R A Leng 19: Problems in the transfer and development of complex technological packages: The Uruguayan Pastoral Sector, L S Jarvis and C Sere 20: Lessons from attempts to transfer farming technologies from Mediterranean Australia to West Asia and North Africa, N J Halse 21: Risk considerations in the design and transfer of agricultural technology, J R Anderson and P B R Hazell 22: Technology prospects and possibilities 23: Sources of the next century's new technology, D L Plucknett 24: Biotechnology's promise, G J Persley 25: Technological prospects for reversing the declining trend in Asia's rice productivity, P Pingali 26: Irrigation investment and management policy for Asia in the 1990s, M W Rosegrant and M Svendsen 27: Non-chemical approaches to tropical tree crop disease management: The case of rubber and cacao in Brazil, P de T Alvim 28: Technology for development in the area of animal breeding, L Vaccaro 29: Alternatives to slash and burn: A pragmatic approach for mitigating tropical deforestation, P A Sanchez 30: Technology and development policy issues 31: Is "Getting Prices Right" enough? The contribution of the economic environment to increases in food production, M D Ingco and D O Mitchell 32: Intellectual property rights in agricultural development, R K Perrin 33: Health, environment and agricultural research, J M Antle 34: Agricultural research strategy for more enduring productivity in fragile areas, J R Anderson and N S Jodha 35: Strategic research in heterogeneous mandate areas: An example from the West African savanna, J Smith and G K Weber 36: Targeting research by agricultural environment, P G Pardey and S Wood 37: Closing summary perspectives 38: Key issues for the international community: A view from CGIAR governance, J L Dillon 39: Agricultural technology policy issues: A view of CGIAR management, C Bonte-Freidheim 40: Agricultural research investment themes and issues: A view from social-science research, M Lipton 41: Sources of agricultural growth in Africa and the importance of technology: A view from World Bank Africa operation, K Cleaver 42: Policy issues: A view from World Bank research, H P Binswanger 43: Concluding remarks: A view from World Bank management, M Petit