Review of Vernon Ruttan, "Technology transfer, institutional transfer, and induced technical and institutional change in agricultural development." Prepared for the Agricultural Development Conference at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, May 1973.
Reviews an account of "possibly the first, modern, agricultural advisory and instructional service…established in Ireland during the great potato famine in the mid-nineteenth century." From M.J. Rolls et al., Progress in rural extension and community development.
Reviews comments by J.A. Ekpere, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, at a recent regional seminar on extension and rural development strategies, Serdang, Malaysia.
