tailieunhanh - MODERN TECHNOLOGY, TRANSNATIONALIZATION, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL SITUATIONS

The climate in Western Australia is predominately Mediterranean and as a result the winter rainfall from May to August provides for grass growth in the months of June through to November (Figure 1). However, there is a resulting shortfall in grass growth for the remaining months of the year which must be addressed. This pattern of grass growth is not adequate to feed a cow for her entire lactation. Alternatives to grass growth such as irrigated pasture are limited due to competition for scarce urban water supplies, the increasing energy costs of. | INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL ISSN OƯ2O-B7O1 FOOD SYSTEMS Modern technology transnationalization regional and national situations unesoo Published quarterly by Unesco Vol. XXXVII No. 3 1985 Editor All Kazancigil Design and layout Jacques Carrasco Picture research Florence Bonjean Correspondents Bangkok Yogesh Atal Beijing Li Xuekun Belgrade Balẫa Spadijer Buenos Aires Norberto Rodríguez Bustamante Canberra Geoffrey Caldwell Cologne Alphons Silbermann Delhi André Béteille Florence Francesco Margiotta Broglio Harare Chen Chimutengwende Hong Kong Peter Chen London Cyril s. Smith Mexico City Pablo Gonzalez Casanova Moscow Marlen Gapotchka Nigeria Akinsola Akiwowo Ottawa Paul Lamy Singapore s. H. Alatas Tokyo Hiroshi Ohta Tunis A. Bouhdiba United States Gene Lyons Topics of forthcoming issues Youth Time and society Front cover Sower at the time of the French agronomist Olivier de Senes c. 1539-1619 who invented the drill harrow. Drawing from La maison rustique. Right Tilling cave paintings Late Bronze Age Valcamonica Brescia Italy. Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici. INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL FOOD SYSTEMS Kostas Vergopoulos The end of agribusiness or the emergence of biotechnology 285 Bernardo Sorj and John Wilkinson Modern food technology industrializing nature 301 Marion Leopold The transnational food companies and their global strategies 315 Ruth Rama Do transnational agribusiness firms encourage the agriculture of developing countries The Mexican experience 331 Peter Hamilton Small farmers and food production in Western Europe 345 V. A. Martynov The problems of developing the agro-industrial system in the USSR 36Ị Pierre Spitz Food systems and society in India the origins of an interdisciplinary research 371 Thierno Alio Ba and Bernard Crousse Food production systems in the middle valley of the Senegal River 389 George L. Beckford Caribbean peasantry in the confines of the plantation mode of production 401 Professional and documentary services .