Table of Contents

Heads in the Sand / Mostafa Tolba -- Progress and Perspectives / Michel Batisse -- Alleviation of Rural Poverty in Arid Lands / Abdelmushin M. Al-Sudeary -- Obstacles to Transfer of Agricultural Technology / Joel Schechter -- Arid Lands in the Global Picture / Gus Speth -- Arid Lands Plants: The Data Crisis / Grenville L. Lucas and Gerald E. Wickens -- Population Pressure on the Arid Lands: Is it Manageable? / L. Alan Eyre -- Forestry Programs in Arid Lands: The Mexican Experience / Heriberto Parra Hake -- Challenges for the Future / Gilbert White -- A Statement by the International Arid Lands Conference Advisory Committee / Kennith E. Foster -- The William G. McGinnies Graduate Scholarship in Arid Lands Studies -- Teaching Sudanese Children Agriculture / Paul Beckman -- ???Have You Seen??? -- Exchange of Families: An Idea Whose Time Has Come -- Senegal River Basin Project, Mauritania