Investigates the effects of corporate farming on small business and on the economic and social structure of rural America in the Great Plains and upper Midwest. May 20 and 21 hearings were held in Omaha, Nebr., and July 22 hearing was held in Eau Claire, Wis. Includes Committee Print No. 13, "Small Business and the Community -- A Study in Central Valley of California on Effects of Scale of Farm Operations," Dec. 23, 1946 (p. 295-441).

Considers economic concentration within the U.S. automobile industry and its impact on consumers, competition, and technological progress, and its response to Government regulations.

The subject of food security and land issues in Africa has become one of increased importance and contention over recent years. In particular, the focus has shifted to the role new global South donors - especially India, China and Brazil - are playing in shaping African agriculture through their increased involvement and investment in the continent. Approaching the topic through the framework of South-South co-operation, this highly original volume presents a critical analysis of the ways in which Chinese, Indian and Brazilian engagements in African agriculture are structured and implemented. Do these investments have the potential to create new opportunities to improve local living standards, transfer new technology and knowhow to African producers, and reverse the persistent productivity decline in African agriculture? Or will they simply aggravate the problem of food insecurity by accelerating the process of land alienation and displacement of local people from their land? Topical and comprehensive, Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa offers fresh insight into a set of relationships that will shape both Africa and the world over the coming decades.