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Author | : Emmanuel H. D'Silva |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780821322000 |
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Of the estimated 1 billion people in the developing world who survive in conditions of extreme poverty, 70 percent live in Asia. The majority of these people live in rural areas and agriculture is their main occupation. Most of the rural poor are small and marginal farmers, landless agricultural workers, fisherfolk, artisans, female headed households, the aged and infirm, and children. The incidence of poverty is highest among female heads of households and children. The seminar on "Poverty Alleviation through Agricultural Projects" provided thirty development practitioners with an opportunity to consider strategies, policies, and practices that help alleviate rural poverty. The seminar discussed four key issues of relevance to policy makers: (1) poverty cannot be measured by income alone; (2) poverty cannot be alleviated through a short-term, piecemeal approach; (3) agricultural projects constitute one of the many means available to governments for alleviating rural poverty; and (4) the role of public sector in poverty alleviation needs to be reconsidered.
Author | : World Bank |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2007-10-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821368095 |
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The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. 'World Development Report 2008' seeks to assess where, when, and how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development, especially development that favors the poor. It examines several broad questions: How has agriculture changed in developing countries in the past 20 years? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? Which new sources of agricultural growth can be captured cost effectively in particular in poor countries with large agricultural sectors as in Africa? How can agricultural growth be made more effective for poverty reduction? How can governments facilitate the transition of large populations out of agriculture, without simply transferring the burden of rural poverty to urban areas? How can the natural resource endowment for agriculture be protected? How can agriculture's negative environmental effects be contained? This year's report marks the 30th year the World Bank has been publishing the 'World Development Report'.
Author | : Emmanuel D'Silva |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Emmanuel D'Silva |
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Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Luc J. Christiaensen |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Agricultural Development |
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Download The Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The relative contribution of a sector to poverty reduction is shown to depend on its direct and indirect growth effects as well as its participation effect. The paper assesses how these effects compare between agriculture and non-agriculture by reviewing the literature and by analyzing cross-country national accounts and poverty data from household surveys. Special attention is given to Sub-Saharan Africa. While the direct growth effect of agriculture on poverty reduction is likely to be smaller than that of non-agriculture (though not because of inherently inferior productivity growth), the indirect growth effect of agriculture (through its linkages with nonagriculture) appears substantial and at least as large as the reverse feedback effect. The poor participate much more in growth in the agricultural sector, especially in low-income countries, resulting in much larger poverty reduction impact. Together, these findings support the overall premise that enhancing agricultural productivity is the critical entry-point in designing effective poverty reduction strategies, including in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, to maximize the poverty reducing effects, the right agricultural technology and investments must be pursued, underscoring the need for much more country specific analysis of the structure and institutional organization of the rural economy in designing poverty reduction strategies.
Author | : John A. Dixon |
Publisher | : Food & Agriculture Org. |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789251046272 |
Download Farming Systems and Poverty Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Author | : Paul Mundy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Africa, Eastern |
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Download Reducing Poverty Through Agricultural Sector Strategies in Eastern and Southern Africa Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Hartmut Brandt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2006-12-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134205147 |
Download Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that eighty per cent of the world's poor live in rural agricultural areas and that the poor are disproportionately affected when political, military and natural events lead to regional or global food shortages. Brandt and Otzen's key book fills a gap in current literature, undertaking a wide-ranging conceptual reorientation of development cooperation, criticizing the current orthodoxy and its bias towards urban areas, and arguing that in order to effectively alleviate poverty across the world, agricultural and rural development measures need to be implemented both by central and subnational governments, aid agencies and the private sector. The authors investigate the world food question, the current pressures it is under and its link to rural poverty, and set out the policies that need to be undertaken to reduce global poverty.
Author | : Jutta Hebel |
Publisher | : Cuvillier Verlag |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Indonesia |
ISBN | : 3865370365 |
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Author | : Van Koppen, Barbara |
Publisher | : IWMI |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Water-supply, Agricultural |
ISBN | : 9290906154 |
Download Reducing Poverty through Investments in Agricultural Water Management Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The overall goal of the Collaborative Program on ‘Investments in Agricultural Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa’ is to contribute to broad-based sustainable poverty reduction and smallholder agricultural growth. The component on ‘Poverty considerations in investments in agricultural water management’ focuses in more detail on poverty and gender dimensions. It consists of two parts. The first part is thematic and elaborates poverty and gender issues emerging from the literature that complement the other components of the Collaborative Program. Part two is empirical. Acknowledging the lack of empirical data on poverty impacts of investments in agricultural water management, the Collaborative Program initiated case studies throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Eight case studies on ‘Agricultural Water Development for Poverty Reduction in Eastern and Southern Africa’, for which the field research was conducted in 2003/2004, were supported by IFAD (Peacock,2005). Further, the African Development Bank supported three case studies in West Africa in 2004, two by Kamara et al. (2004), and one by Babatunde Omilola (2005). Part two synthesizes the empirical findings of these case studies.