Poverty orientated agricultural and rural development / Hartmut Brandt and Uwe Otzen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandt, Hartmut.

Contributor:

Otzen, Uwe.

Series:

Routledge studies in development and society ; 12.

Routledge studies in development and society ; 12

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Agricultural development projects--Developing countries.

Agricultural development projects.

Poverty.

International cooperation.

Developing countries.

Rural development projects--Developing countries.

Rural development projects.

Poverty--Developing countries--International cooperation.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

Part A Approaches to poverty reduction through agricultural development

Part I Background to the problem: world food question 18

2 Demand 19

2.1 Population growth 19

2.2 Per capita income 21

2.3 Income elasticity of demand 21

2.4 Forecast of demand 21

3 Supply 22

3.1 Available arable land 22

3.2 Soil fertility in the tropics 22

3.3 Soil erosion 25

3.4 Land development on balance 26

3.5 Increase in yields and production forecast 27

4 Main development problem of the world food issue: poverty, hunger, undernourishment and malnutrition 30

4.1 Incidence of undernourishment 30

4.2 Disposable income, food consumption, undernourishment 31

5 Relevance of food prices to poverty 32

5.1 Reference level: domestic market 32

5.2 Reference level: world market 34

Part II Motive for the study: new urban bias in development cooperation 37

6 Neglect of the agricultural sector in development cooperation 37

6.1 The causes 39

6.2 Agricultural policy distortions: industrialized countries, world markets, developing countries 45

7 Neglect of agriculture in the sub-Saharan African countries 57

Part III Poverty reduction in the conceptual experience of agricultural development 60

8 Role of agriculture in the early-industrial phase of economic development 60

8.1 Excursus - towards an understanding of the subject matter 60

8.2 Agricultural contributions to economic development 63

8.3 Factor proportions theorem of agricultural development 66

9 Agricultural policy conceptions 1955-2000 69

9.1 Community development (1955-65) 69

9.2 Green revolution (1965-75) 71

9.3 Integrated rural development (1975-85) 79

9.4 Structural adjustment programmes (1985-95) 81

9.5 Sector investment programmes and capacity-building (1995-present) 83

9.6 A brief review of socio-political problems in decentralized rural development 86

Part IV Economic growth, agricultural development, poverty reduction 88

10 Economic and agricultural growth 89

10.1 Linkage through mutual demand 89

10.2 Urbanization 92

11 Driving forces behind agricultural growth 94

11.1 Empirical evidence at sectoral level 94

11.2 Microeconomic analysis and innovations 97

12 Growth and poverty reduction 101

12.1 Economic growth and poverty reduction 102

12.2 Agricultural development and poverty reduction 105

13 The problems posed by poverty-oriented agricultural policy 111

13.1 Price, market and trade policy 112

13.1.1 Agricultural prices and wages 114

13.1.2 Transport costs and market segmentation 117

13.2 Innovation policy 119

13.3 Land reform 122

13.3.1 Social and economic incentives for land reform 123

13.3.2 Systematics of reform projects 126

13.3.3 Land reforms in the twentieth century 127

13.3.4 Implementation difficulties and preconditions for success 127

13.3.5 'Successes' without land ownership being changed 129

13.3.6 Land reforms in Southern Africa 129.

Notes:

"English-language translation first published 2007 by Routledge"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415368537

9780415368537

0203028759

9780203028759

OCLC:

67346344

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