2008: Vol 36 No 2

1. ARTICLES	Page
Measuring Total Factor Productivity Change for Agricultural Cooperatives in Japan: A Nonparametric Malmquist Indices Approach Katsunobu Kondo, Yasutaka Yamamoto, and Jun Sasaki Abstract	101
The Life Cycle of Agricultural Cooperatives: Implications for Management and Governance in Ethiopia Gian Nicola Francesconi and Ruerd Ruben Abstract	115
Process Innovation Activity in a Mixed Oligopsony: The Role of Marketing Cooperatives Kyriakos Drivas and Konstantinos Giannakas Abstract	131
Rural Supply and Marketing Cooperatives in China: Historical Development, Problems, and Reform Xiangyu Guo, Todd M Schmit, and Brian M. Henehan Abstract	157
2. BOOK REVIEWS
Grigory Ioffe, Tatyana Nefdova, and Ilya Zaslavsky, The End of Peasantry? The Disintegration of Rural Russia. University of Pittsburg Press, 2006, 249 pages. Yoav Kislev	175
Michael Woods. Contesting Rurality; Politics in the British Countryside. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2005, 209 pages. Levia Applebaum	178
Guy M. Robinson (ed.). Sustainable Rural Systems: Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Communities (Perspectives on Rural Policy & Planning Series). Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2008, 200 pages. Michael Sofer	180
Jorgen Ole Baerenholdt and Brynhild Granas (eds.). Mobility and Place: Enacting Northern European Peripheries. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2008, 272 pages. Aharon Kellerman	182
3. CURRENT INFORMATION
Dissertation Abstracts	185
Call for Papers	192

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