This collection of essays examine the problems currently facing farmers and agricultural products in the international market.

World trade in agricultural products - from global regulation to market fragmentation, Laurence Tubiana; the US farm crisis and the restructuring of American agriculture - domestic and international dimensions, Frederick H.Buttel; French agriculture and the failure of its European strategy, Pierre Coulomb and Helene Delorme; the farm crisis in Britain, Graham Cox et al; approaching limits - farming contraction and environmental conservation in the UK, Clive Potter; the restructuring of Spanish agriculture and Spain's accession to the EEC, Miren Etxezarreta and Lourdes Viladomiu; structural dimensions of farm crisis in the Federal Republic of Germany, Max J.Pfeffer; Mexican agricultural policy in the shadow of the UK farm crisis, Steven E.Sanderson; the rural crisis down under - Australia's declining fortunes in the global farm economy, Geoffrey Lawrence; aims and constraints of the Brazilian agro-industrial strategy - the case of soya, Vincent Leclercq.