Gambling on Pakistan's Agricultural Future

Najma Sadeque

Development, 2008, vol. 51, issue 4, 555-560

Abstract: Najma Sadeque argues that the future of Pakistan's agriculture could go in two possible directions – working the soil to death chasing export monoculture and thereby hastening desertification and the collapse of the farm sector and the economy at large, or returning to intensive, small-scale and collective organic farming. If it chooses the latter path, the process of rediscovering traditional farming methods would create space for small farmers to help bring about a degree of egalitarianism and true free enterprise – reluctantly on the part of the power-holders, but permitted out of sheer need rather than for any ideological reasons. Development (2008) 51, 555–560. doi:10.1057/dev.2008.62

Date: 2008
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v51/n4/pdf/dev200862a.pdf Link to full text PDF (application/pdf)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v51/n4/full/dev200862a.html Link to full text HTML (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
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:pal:develp:v:51:y:2008:i:4:p:555-560

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... es/journal/41301/PS2

Access Statistics for this article

Development is currently edited by Stefano Prato

More articles in Development from Palgrave Macmillan, Society for International Deveopment Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().