Financing Agriculture Into The Twenty-first Century

Introduction Part One: Forces Inducing Change 1. Macroeconomic Factors and International Linkages Affecting the Financing of Agriculture in a World Economy 2. Changes in the Farm Sector Part Two: Future Directions for Agricultural Finance 3. New and Changing Rules of the Game 4. The Emerging Agricultural Lending System 5. Emerging Strategies for Traditional Lenders Part Three: Who will be the Lenders and What will they be Doing? 6. The Role of Federal Credit Programs 7. Emerging Nontraditional Lenders and Products Part Four: Policy Implications 8. Public and Private Policy Implications