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What Can Agriculture Do for the Poorest Rural Groups?

In: The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development

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  • Hans P. Binswanger

    (World Bank)

  • Jaime B. Quizon

    (Chase Econometrics and World Bank)

Abstract

Most of the world’s poorest people live in rural areas. They derive a large share of income from agriculture, as small farmers or as workers – or as both. Agricultural development is therefore often seen as the key to reducing poverty, especially rural poverty. In most of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, where the rural poor are mostly small farmers, it is clear that increasing the efficiency of these farmers vis-à-vis large farmers (or of the country as a whole vis-à-vis competing countries) improves the small farmers’ condition. They can expand their sales and/or can produce their own subsistence with less effort or lower cash costs (for a full discussion see World Bank, 1986).

Suggested Citation

  • Hans P. Binswanger & Jaime B. Quizon, 1989. "What Can Agriculture Do for the Poorest Rural Groups?," International Economic Association Series, in: Irma Adelman & Sylvia Lane (ed.), The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development, chapter 7, pages 110-135, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-10268-6_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10268-6_8
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    1. Otsuka, Keijiro, 2000. "Role of agricultural research in poverty reduction: lessons from the Asian experience," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 25(4), pages 447-462, August.
    2. Suryahadi, Asep & Suryadarma, Daniel & Sumarto, Sudarno, 2009. "The effects of location and sectoral components of economic growth on poverty: Evidence from Indonesia," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 89(1), pages 109-117, May.

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