ABSTRACT
A major work on agricultural research policy for developing nations is Vernon W. Ruttan's Agricultural Research Policy and Development which serves as the point of departure for discussing issues related to distributive justice in the Third World. Beyond the Green Revolution, by Kenneth Dahlberg, is a critique of the technology development and transfer orientation that has been the main emphasis of agricultural development in poor countries. Dahlberg believes that the history of development represents an attempt to graft Western practices onto Third World contexts without sufficient understanding of the values involved and the long-term prospects that result. In the early 1960s, many believed that traditional agriculture was an inefficient means for allocating resources, and that the primary obstacle to increased agricultural production by traditional farmers was their economic backwardness, which allegedly led to inefficient allocation of the factors of production at their disposal.
