This paper defines mass science, presents an assessment of its uses and abuses in China during the Cultural Revolution decade, and analyzes the future of mass science in China. (Author/BB)

Reports on a visit to the New Alchemy Institute, a cluster of windmills and fish and vegetable production systems on a 12-acre site on Cape Cod. They are active in the appropriate technology movement. (BB)

Examines some of the factors that influence the global population-food balance including agricultural resources, population characteristics and general features of the world food system. (MA)

Reports on a chemistry course in winemaking and viticulture. (SL)

The Federal government's policies reflect its desire to make the Indian economically self-sufficient and ultimately assimilate him into the mainstream of American life, but the means used to achieve these ends failed to consider the background of the Plains Indians and the qualities of the land on which they were situated. (Author/NQ)

Data from a statewide sample of Wisconsin residents are used to test the hypothesis that ruralism is more strongly associated with environmental concern than is agrarianism. Only weak support for this hypothesis is obtained among the total sample; however, the results for the upper-middle class are more in accord with it. (Author/NQ)

Discusses the use of remote sensing techniques to obtain locational, estimated, and mapped information at the scales varying from individual fields and farms, to entire continents and the world. (AEM)

Examines issues regarding current farm finance situation from a public policy perspective: origins and causes of current situation, available policy options for dealing with the problems, and impacts of policy options. (NEC)

Reviews publications and programs on issues such as meeting infant care needs, agriculture in the classroom, employers' involvement with child care, guidance for parents of sexually assaulted children, introduction to the criminal justice system, and the effects of sexual or physical abuse on children. (SO)

Analyzes how Filipinos, working under a stratified polyethnic system which treated Whites, Native American Indians, Japanese, and Filipinos differently, were able to establish a permanent agricultural community in the Yakima Valley before World War II. (LHW)

Food processing plants are adding value to bulk and intermediate products to sell overseas. The Asian Pacific Rim economies constituted the largest market for consumer food products in 1993. This shift toward consumer food imports in this area is due to more women working outside the home, the internationalization of populations, and dramatic…

Whereas women carry the primary responsibility for food production in Africa, development agencies have devoted minimal resources to researching the impact of their policies and new techniques on the well-being of Africa's women farmers. C. K. Eicher (1995) and M. Smale (1995) call this the invisible factor because the gender-related constraints…

The dichotomy existing between fundamental and applied research in agriculture inhibits progress in theory and practice. Suggests that the initiative for breaking down the barriers between applied and fundamental research should come from working scientists. Lists ten agriculturally relevant fundamental research areas which are lagging and require…

Presidential address, annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August 26, 1972. (FF)