ELCO LANIER GREENSHIELDS
Scope and Content Note
Elco Lanier Greenshields was an agricultural economist with the Agriculture
Department from 1935-63. During those years he specialized in the study of land use and
development policies in the United States. This experience was valuable later in his career
when he served on the staff of the World Bank (1963-68), the United Nations' Food and
Agri-culture Organization (1968-73) and as a consultant to the World Bank and several
other UN agencies (1973-88). Agricultural historians will be interested in his early studies
(1937-47) of farm tenancy, the rehabilitation of worn-out land, and the concentration of
control over agricultural land.
Much of Greenshields' work during the second part of his career, from 1963 to 1988,
involved the development and oversight of agricultural development projects, mainly in the
near east and Asia. Many of these projects, sponsored by the UN's drug control program,
were intended to encourage native farmers to discontinue the growing of poppies.
Greenshields died in 1989 at the age of 78. His papers (1925-88, 20 linear feet) consist of
correspondence, memoranda, reports, copies of articles and speeches by Greenshields, and
printed matter reflecting his personal life and career.
Subject File
Box Contents
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Agency for International Development
See: Cost-Benefit Studies of AID, 1962
Afghanistan
See Also under Drug Control
Agricultural Planning, 1972
Grain Storage Project, 1978-79
Insect Pests, undated
Lists: Government Officials and UN Personnel, 1972
Memoranda, 1972
Printed Matter
Statistical Handbook, 1972
Wheat Production Project, 1972
Africa
Agriculture Department, 1967-70
Economic Development, 1962
Private Enterprise, 1964
Agricultural Credit, 1953
Agricultural Policy in U.S., 1947-48
2
Agricultural Policies of Foreign Governments, 1964-65
Agriculture
Miscellaneous
1937-45
1950-78 and undated
Agriculture and Economic Development and Planning
Cost-Benefit Analysis, 1963-70
3
Criteria and Evaluation
1959-64
1967
1968-69
1971-73
1983
Miscellaneous
1941-56
1958-61
1963
1964-66
4
1967
1968-70
1971-88 and undated
UN List of Projects, 1972
Agriculture Department
Agricultural Economics, Bureau of
See:
1. Cash Rent Report, 1944
2. Land Tenure Studies and Conferences
President's Water Resources Policy Commission,1950-51
Resettlement Administration
See: Land Use Studies and Conferences
Yearbook Article by ELG, 1958
American Farm Economics Meeting, 1955
Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development, 1980
Arabian Gulf States: A Businessman's Guide to the, 1972
Articles and Speeches by Greenshields
See Also:
1. Food and Agricultural Organization of UN:
Watershed Development Lectures by ELG, 1962
2. Grange: Studies
3. Irrigation: Articles & Speeches by ELG
4. Land Use Studies & Conferences: folders
entitled: Changes on Size of Farms;
Concentration & Control of Agric Land;
County Land Use Plannning, 1939; Farm
Tenancy Retards Food Production; Farm
Tenure Improvement: Report on Activities
in Upper Midwest; Farm Tenure
Improvement: Report on Leasing
Practices in Southeast U.S.; Farm
Tenure Improvement: Report on Farm
Tenure Improvement as an Aid to
Conservation, 1940; Rural Rehabilitation,
History of, 1947.
5. Oklahoma Submarginal Land Use Project
Report (2 volumes), 1941
1943 Changes in Size of Farms
See: Land Use Studies and Conferences: Changes in
Size of Farms
1947 January, Farms Are Getting Bigger and Fewer
1947 March, How Big is the Farm Business ?
1948 June, Farmers Step Up Irrigation
1951 July, Benefit-Cost Analysis of Resource Development
1958 , Land and Advances in Technology
1962, Watershed Development
Asian Agriculture, 1968
Bahrain
Correspondence, 1974
Reports and Notes, 1973-74 and undated
Bangladesh, 1987
See Also: Pakistan, East
Brazil
Correspondence, 1965-67
Economic Position Report, 1966
Volume I (April 21 edition)
Volume I (June 14 edition)
Volume II (April 21 edition)
Volume II (June 14 edition)
Volume III (June 14 edition)
Fertilizers, Report on, 1964
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Grain Storage Project, 1965-68
Briggs, Glen 1938-39
Burma
See Also under Drug Control
Simpkins Mission Proposal, 1984 and undated
Printed Matter
Cash Rent Report, 1944
Cattle Prices in Oklahoma
Checchi and Company, 1985
Chile, 1963-65
China, 1966
Colorado River
See: Mexico: Colorado River Rehabilitation
Columbia
Correspondence, 1965-66
Economic Position Report
Volume I
Volume II
Volume IV
Engineering Feasibility Study on Storage, etc. of Crops, 1965
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Figs, 1965-66 and undated
Conferences Attended by Greenshields
Corporate Finance Class, 1966 (3 folders)
Cost-Benefit Studies of AID, 1962
Development Alternatives, Inc. 1981 and undated
Development Projects Institute
Correspondence, 1967
Workshop Materials
8
Drug Control Program of UN
Correspondence, 1973-78 (4 folders)
Afghanistan
Chart/Map
General, 1972-75
Reports
1972
1973
Undated
Applicants for Jobs, 1974-80 and undated
Budget, 1972-75
Burma, 1973 and undated
Clippings, 1974-76
Day, Gayle 1974-77
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Financing Agreement for Program
1974
Pay Invoices, 1973-77
Inter-Agency Advisory Committee, 1972-74
Iran, 1971
Laos, 1974-76 and undated
Latin American Workshop, 1975
Lebanon
Correspondence
1972
January--April
May--November
1973
Miscellaneous
Proposals and Reports, 1972-76
Ling, George 1976-77
Nepal
Correspondence, 1973-74
Maps and Charts
Miscellaneous
Proposals and Reports, 1973-74
Pakistan
Correspondence
1973-75
10
1976-77 and undated
Buner Agricultural Project, 1976-77
Buner Socio-Economic Survey, 1975
Hoover, Richard M. 1975-79 and undated
Miscellaneous
Printed Matter
Project Proposals, 1974-77
Reports, 1974-76
Printed Matter, 1973-78
Reports, undated
Thailand
Correspondence, 1973
Report, 1970
Work Plan, 1972
Turkey
Correspondence, 1975
Press Coverage, 1974-75 and undated
Reports, 1974-75
UN Commission on Drugs
1972-76
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1977
Yore, Rosaleen 1976-79 and undated
East Pakistan
See: Pakistan, East
Economic Thought Class Notes (3 folders)
Economic Development of Agriculture
See: Lectures on Agricultural Economic Development, 1965
Ethiopia, 1962 and undated
Farm Budgeting, 1958-59
Farm Cash Rent Study for Agricultural Census, 1943-44 & undated
Farm Cost Accounting, 1958-59
Fertilizer, 1955-68 and undated
See Also: Soil Conservation and Fertilization
Flood/Erosion Control
1957-58
1960-64
12
1965-67 and undated
Food
1963-70
Undated
Food and Agriculture Organization of UN
African Economics Course Taught by ELG, 1962
Agricultural Economics Bulletin for Africa, 1963
Aide Memoire
1968
1969
March--June
July--December
1970
January--September
October--December
1971
1972
Appointment of ELG for Three Years (1959)
13
Correspondence
Personnel Actions, etc.
Regulations, 1958-62
Appointment (Third) of ELG, 1966-73
Correspondence and Memoranda
1969
1970
1971
January--May
June--September
October
November--December
1972
January--April
May--July
August--October
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November--December
1973
January--March
April--May
Country Planning and Sector Analysis, 1969-71 & undated
General, 1960-73
Miscellaneous
Names of Contacts
Network Analysis for Project Planning, 1969-71 & undated
Network Planning and Control Procedures
Handbook, 1970
Personnel Forms
Project Planning and Implementation, 1970
Secretarial Assistance, 1973-75
Watershed Development Lectures by ELG, 1962
Grange, The
Annual Sessions
1951
1952
15
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
National Grange, 1953-59 and undated
Potomac Grange, No. 1 1949-82 and undated
Studies
General Correspondence, 1956-66 and undated
1946 Soil Conservation Programs
1947: Soil Conservation
General
Report and Drafts
1948: Grazing
Source Material and Miscellaneous
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General
1949: Railroad Consolidation and Taxation
1950: Maintaining Economic Stability in Agric
1952: Production Payment Plans
1952: Toll Roads
1953: Causes of Business Cycles
1953: Immigration
1953: Means of Lessening World Tensions
1953: 160 Acre Limitation Under Federal Reclamation
Projects
1953: Policies for Maximizing Sound Competition
in Transportation
1953: Reasons for Delay in Extending Adequate
Telephone Service to American Farms
1953: Uniform Traffic Laws
1954: Controlling Water Pollution
1954: Land Classification as a Guide in Production
Adjustment Programs
1954: Improvement in Agricultural Foreign Trade Relations
1955: Financing of a National Highway Program
1956: Maximum Food Distribution
1957: Are We Growing Sufficient Sawtimber ?
1958: Protecting Corn from Blackbirds
1966: Would a Return to the Gold Standard be
Advantageous to Farmers
Miscellaneous
Grain Storage
1944-56
1959-64
1964-70 and undated
Gray, L. C.
See: Land Use Studies/Conferences: Speeches by Gray
Greenshields, Elco Lanier
Letters of Commendation, 1945-61
Miscellneous Personal Correspondence, 1938-63 & undated
Naval Service
See: Naval Service Records
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Personnel Actions, etc., 1944-50 and undated
Summer School at University of Wisconsin, 1940
World Bank Consultant, 1983
Greenshields Family
Folder I
Folder II
Guatemala, 1973-76 and undated
Guyana, 1967-68
India, 1953
Indonesia
1954
1969
1987
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Correspondence and Memoranda
1963
1964
January--February
March--December
18
1965
1966
1967
1968
Back to Office Reports, 1963-66
See Also: files for individual countries
Bidding of Contracts, 1963
Capital Investments Article in Harvard Business Review, 1958
Credit Projects, Appraisal of 1962-64 and undated
Division Guidelines, 1965
Irrigation and Drainage Projects, 1957-68 & undated
Lending for Agriculture, 1963
Loan Agreements, 1963
Miscellaneous Employee Information, 1963-68
Policy
Agriculture Division, 1964-65
General
1965-70
1981-83 and undated
Loans
Projects Department, 1964
Portuguese Agriculture Questionnaire, 1961
Project Appraisal, 1961-64
Project Supervision Reports, 1965-67
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Rates of Return, 1964
Road Projects, 1962
Terms of Reference for Projects, 1963-68
See Also: files for individual countries
International Institute on Cotton, 1971
Iran
Correspondence, 1966-67
Ghazvin Plain Project
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1966-67
Minutes of Meetings, 1965-66
Studies and Reports, 1966-67
Varamin Plain Irrigation, 1969
Iraq
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1976
IBRD Economic Study, 1968
Report of UNDP Team, 1976
Irrigation
See Also files for individual countries
Articles and Speeches by Elco Greenshields
1947, Integration of Irrigation and Dry Farming
1948 Nov, Irrigation Agriculture in the West
1950, Irrigation in the East
1953, Supplemental Irrigation in East
1953 April, Eight Million More Acres Irrigated
1953 May, Irrigation's Part in Agric Production
1953 Oct., 160 Acre Limitation Under Federal
Reclamation Projects
1955, Expansion of Irrigation in the West
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1956, Irrigation in Humid Areas (2 folders)
1956 Dec., That's No River, That's . . .
1957 Feb., Radio Interview of Elco Greenshields
1957 Mar., Irrigation in the Upper South
1958, Irrigation in Areas of Low Rainfall
1958, Some New Jobs for Irrigation
Colorado River, 1959-63
DuPont Study, 1953
Eastern States, 1952-58 and undated
See Also:
Irrigation: Articles and Speeches by
ELG for 1950, 1953, 1956
Printed Matter (2 folders)
Western States, 1959
See Also:
1. Irrigation: Articles and Speeches
by ELG for 1948 and 1955
Israel: Nahal Shikma Watershed Plans, 1962
Jamaica, 1965
Korea
1960
Reports and Proposals
Agricultural Sector, 1971
Pyongtaek-Kumgang Irrigation Project, 1979
Trips, 1968
Trips, 1970
1970 Trip Report
Feasibility Analysis for Agric Projects
Kuwait
Correspondendce and Miscellaneous Notes, 1978
FAO Mission Report, 1978
Travel Arrangements, 1978
Land and Land Tenure, 1958-67
Land Tenure Studies and Conferences
Changes in Size of Farms, 1942-43
Concentration of Control of Agricultural Land
Digest of Report, 1941
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Report, 1941
County Land Use Planning, 1939
Farm Tenancy Retards Food Production, 1943-44
Farm Tenancy Studies
Correspondence
1937-45
1946-47 and undated
Farm Tenure Improvement
See Also: Low Income Families in Iowa, 1940-41
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1938
Lease/Loan Forms, 1938
Report of Advisory Committee, 1940
Report of Interbureau Coordinating Committee on Farm
Tenure, 1940
Report on Activities in Upper Midwest (Region 8), 1940
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Report on Farm Tenure Improvement as an Aid
to Conservation, 1940
Report on Leasing Practices in Southeast
United States (Region 5), 1941
Sub-Committee Work, 1939
Greene County Georgia, 1939-41
Land Use Development for Agricultural Uses Seminar
(Netherlands), 1957
Land Use Policy and the Methodist Church, 1947-48 and undated
Land Tenure Workshop, 1956
Rural Rehabilitation, History of 1947
Speeches by L.C. Gray
1925-34
1935
1936-40
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Leave Used by ELG
Lectures on Agricultural Economic Development,1965 (2 folders)
Low Income Families in Iowa, c. 1940-41
Lebanon
Drug Control, 1972-73
Maximizing Net Benefit Concept, 1959 and undated
Mexico: Colorado River Rehabilitation
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1966-68
Basic Data, 1968
Loan Agreement, 1968
Reports, 1967
September 11
November 6
December 21
Reports, 1968
Missouri Basin Program, 1950
Mjelde, Ole 1961-62
Morocco
Agricultural Credit Loan, 1965
Miscellaneous
Sidi Slimane Project
Correspondence and Memoranda, 1962-66
Project Administration Files (1)
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Project Administration Files&nb