Les contacts entre économistes ruraux au niveau international sont-ils suffisants ?

At present time, the great majority of agricultural economists pursue their work with very little direct personal contact with those who are working on similar problems in other countries. The barriers are those of language, distance, professional pre-occupation, inertia, and unwillingness to submit unfinished work to the scruting of anyone except very close colleagues. Certain current developments may strenghten the contacts in 1973 : the publication of a European Review of Agricultural Economics, and also the creation of a Centre for European Agricultural Studies at Wye College (University of London), Ashford, Kent.