Excerpt from The Agricultural Situation, Vol. 14: A Brief Summary of Economic Conditions; September 1, 1930 States remaining unchanged. Slight increases were indicated for Maine, Connecticut, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oregon, although in all Of these there hasn't been much movement either way in the last few years. Renewed interest in the dry-farming sections of Colorado, New mexico, and Wyoming, largely for wheat growing, is credited with having lifted values there. The rapid shifts in the agriculture of the Great Plains, much of which was once regarded as marginal or submarginal land, have formed one Of the outstanding features of the postwar years. The Cotton Belt, for example, moved westward once again and tractor and combine pushed the Wheat Belt far over into territory whose rainfall was too uncertain to encourage cultiva tion under the Old methods. Land values stiffened or increased despite the lowered prices of wheat which came with the depression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This volume sets out to explore the dialectic relating agriculture, crisis and conflict, and attempts to expand the knowledge on these interactions. Part 1 of the volume (chapters 1-6) discusses thematic issues and methodological approaches to understanding the intersection of agriculture, crisis and conflict. Part 2 (chapters 7-20) provides case studies that take a detailed approach to understanding agricultural contexts facing crisis and conflict, or the role played by agriculture within crisis and conflict. Studies are selected from areas that might be expected to feature in such a volume (the Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America) as well as less obvious regions where conflict within agriculture refers not to widespread violence or wars but rather latent or simmering crisis (Central Asia and Europe). Crises stemming from politically-driven violence, natural disasters and climate change are covered, as well as competition over resources.