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Smallholder Adjustment in Middle-Income Countries: Issues and Policy Responses

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  • Dalila Cervantes-Godoy

    (OECD)

  • Jonathan Brooks

    (OECD)

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This paper discusses the adjustment pressures faced by smallholders in middle-income countries, considers the types of policy response that are warranted, and proposes an integrated framework for more inclusive development. Central to this framework is the recognition that the long-term (i.e. inter-generational) future of the majority of smallholders lies outside farming. Hence a range of development pathways need to be facilitated, including improved competitiveness within the sector, income diversification (either within or outside agriculture) and the movement to jobs in other sectors. In order to facilitate adjustment, targeted agricultural policies need to be designed in conjunction with a range of complementary economy-wide measures.

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  • Dalila Cervantes-Godoy & Jonathan Brooks, 2008. "Smallholder Adjustment in Middle-Income Countries: Issues and Policy Responses," OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers 12, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:agraaa:12-en
    DOI: 10.1787/228583166164
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    Cited by:

    1. Kelvin Mulungu & John N. Ng’ombe, 2017. "Sources of Economic Growth in Zambia, 1970–2013: A Growth Accounting Approach," Economies, MDPI, vol. 5(2), pages 1-23, May.
    2. Jonathan Brooks, 2009. "Why is Agricultural Trade Policy Always So Difficult to Reform? Warum gestaltet sich die Reform der Agrarhandelspolitik jedes Mal so schwierig? Pourquoi la politique commerciale agricole est‐elle touj," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 8(2), pages 38-43, August.
    3. Jonathan Brooks, 2009. "Why Is Agricultural Trade Policy Always So Difficult To Reform?," EuroChoices, The Agricultural Economics Society, vol. 8(SpecialIs), pages 38-43, August.
    4. Oluwatobi Joshua OLOFIN & Adeleke Gabriel AREMO (Ph.D) & Olabode Philp OLOFIN (Ph.D) & Oluwafemi Olawale OKUNADE, 2023. "Neighborhood Effect, Agricultural Development and Poverty Level in Nigeria," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 7(5), pages 705-726, May.

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    Keywords

    agriculture; development; government policy; poverty; smallholders; structural adjustment;
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    JEL classification:

    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • O20 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - General
    • Q10 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - General
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

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