Maize Technology Development And Transfer: A GIS Application For Research Planning In Kenya

sis of the choice of farm organizations, we will be able to obtain much better understanding of the future of agricultural organization in the transitional economies. In conclusion, the authors of this volume predict that group farming will continue to be dominant farm organization in the foreseeable future in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Such conclusion, however, is not convincing, because of the lack of supporting evidence. It seems to the present reviewer that there is a good possibility that individual family farming will develop, securing marketing and support services through collective organizations. I fully recognize the limited availability of statistical data necessary for rigorous empirical analyses in the context of the transitional economies, so that it is probably unfair to criticize the lack of rigorous analysesin this volume. I would like to point out, however, that the contribution of this volume would have been much greater if the synthesis of the findings and arguments were provided in such a way as to stimulate future research in this frontier area of investigation in our profession.