Contents: Introduction / M.A. Mohamed Salih -- Tapping the Agrarian Sector for Economic Growth: The Sudan Experience / Ibrahim A. Elbadawi -- Economic Strategy and Household Viability in a Dry Savannah Agricultural Society: Berti of Darfur / Ladislav Holy -- Agricultural Intensification and Resource Maintenance: Some Cases from Western Sudan / Leif O. Manger -- Poverty Versus Affluence: The Fiasco of Rainfed Mechanized Agriculture in Renk District, Southern Sudan / Paul Wani Gore -- The Tractor and the Plough: The Sociological Dimension / M.A. Mohamed Salih -- National Ambivalence and External Hegemony: The Negligence of Pastoral Nomads in the Sudan / Abdel Ghaffar M Ahmed -- Implications of 1983-1985 Famine on the Rural Sahel of the Sudan / Abdullahi Osman El Tom -- From Rural to Urban Labour Markets: The Derivation of the Shadow Wage and the Social Rate of Discount for the Sudan / Eltingani S. Moharned