Rural development and poverty reduction: is agriculture still the key?
Gustavo Anríquez and
Kostas Stamoulis
No 289048, ESA Working Papers from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA)
Abstract:
This paper examines the relationship between rurality and poverty, and the role the agricultural sector can play in rural development, poverty reduction, and overall development. The historical views regarding the role of the primary sector in development are presented, and then using original data, the paper argues that there was an historical misjudgment against the primary sector that served as a foundation for anti-agricultural bias in public policy until the late 80's. Finally, this paper explains how under certain conditions territorial/regional development strategies may prosper, but in other conditions, particularly in the least-developed countries rural space, agriculture is still necessarily the starting point for rural development.
Keywords: Food Security and Poverty; Community/Rural/Urban Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-02-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (37) Track citations by RSS feed
Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/289048/files/a-ah885e.pdf (application/pdf)
Related works:
Journal Article: Rural development and poverty reduction: is agriculture still the key? (2007)
Working Paper: Rural Development and Poverty Reduction; Is Agriculture Still the Key? (2007)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:faoaes:289048
DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.289048
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in ESA Working Papers from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search (aesearch@umn.edu).