Trends and recent changes in the Latin American food and agriculture situation / Luis López Cordovez. -- Latin American agriculture. Its prospects up to the end of the century / Nurul Islam. -- Capitalism and population in Latin American agriculture. Recent trends and problems / Carmen A. Miró and Daniel Rodriguez. -- Peasant agriculture in Latin America. Situations and trends / Emiliano Ortega. -- The principal schools of thought on the peasant economy / Klaus Hey nig. -- The peasantry in Latin America. A theoretical approach / Raúl Brignol and Jaime Crispi. -- Class and culture in the changing peasantry / John W. Durston. -- On being grandmotherly: the evolution of IMF conditionality / Sidney Dell. -- Notes and comments: Statement by Mr. Kenneth Dadzie at the opening ceremony of the nineteenth session of CEPAL.