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

Dalila Cervantes-Godoy and Jonathan Brooks
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Dalila Cervantes-Godoy: OECD
Jonathan Brooks: OECD

No 12, OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: agriculture; development; government policy; poverty; smallholders; structural adjustment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 O20 Q10 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12-01
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