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Credit Between Cultures: Farmers, Financiers, and Misunderstanding in Africa

By Parker Shipton (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) Parker Shipton brings a variety of perspectives—cultural,  economic, political, and religious-philosophical—and years of field experience to this fascinating study about people who borrow and lend in the interior of Africa. His conclusions challenge the conventional wisdom of the past half century (including perennial World Bank orthodoxy) about the need … Continued

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The Law of the Land: Two Hundred Years of American Farmland Policy

By John Opie (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) This book provides fascinating insights into how present-day American land legislation has evolved. In doing so the author identifies the many problems that the family farmer has had to face over the past two centuries at the hands of the weather, unstable product prices, and politicians.