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New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture

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  • Hazell, Peter B. R.
    (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

  • Rahman, Atiqur
    (International Fund for Agricultural Development)

Abstract

The majority of the poor and hungry people in the world live on small farms and struggle to subsist on too little land with low input - low yield technologies. At the same time, many other smallholders are successfully intensifying and succeeding as farm businesses, often in combination with diversification into off-farm sources of income. This book examines the growing divergence between subsistence and business oriented small farms, and discusses how this divergence has been impacted by population growth, trends in farm size distribution, urbanization, off-farm income diversification, and the globalization of agricultural value chains. It finds that policy makers need to differentiate more sharply between different types of small farms than they did in the past, both in terms of their potential contributions towards achieving national economic growth, poverty alleviation, and food security goals, and the types of assistance they need. The book distinguishes between smallholders that are business oriented, subsistence oriented, and at various stages of transition to the non-farm economy, and discusses strategies appropriate for assisting each type. The book draws on a wealth of recent experience at IFAD and elsewhere to help identify best practice approaches. Contributors to this volume - Akinwumi A. Adesina, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Nigeria Julio A. Berdegue, Rimisp-Latin American Center for Rural Development, Santiago George Bigirwa, AGRA Nixon Bugo, Certified Public Accountant Gordon Conway, Imperial College, London Sara Delaney, Agriculture and Food Security for Episcopal Relief & Development, New York Klaus Deininger, World Bank Martin Evans, NGO Farm Africa Ricardo Fuentealba, University of Bristol Raghav Gaiha, University of Delhi Peter Hazell, SOAS, University of London Edward Heinemann, IFAD Mahabub Hossain, BRAC W. M. H. Jaim, Bangladesh Agricultural University Calestous Juma, Harvard Kennedy School Augustine Langyintuo, AGRA Geoffrey Livingston, IFAD John Lynam, Independent Consultant Kehinde Makinde, AGRA Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of IFAD Atiqur Rahman, IFAD Steven Schonberger, World Bank Sukhpal Singh, Indian Institute of Management Jennifer Smolak, Independent Consultant David Spielman, IFPRI Ganesh Thapa, IFAD Maximo Torero, IFPRI Camilla Toulmin, IIED Stephen Twomlow, IFAD John Wakiumu, AGRA Steve Wiggins, University of Reading

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  • Hazell, Peter B. R. & Rahman, Atiqur (ed.), 2014. "New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199689354, Decembrie.
  • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780199689354
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