What Can Agriculture Do for the Poorest Rural Groups?

Hans Binswanger-Mkhize and Jaime B. Quizon
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Jaime B. Quizon: Chase Econometrics and World Bank

Chapter 7 in The Balance between Industry and Agriculture in Economic Development, 1989, pp 110-135 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Most of the world’s poorest people live in rural areas. They derive a large share of income from agriculture, as small farmers or as workers – or as both. Agricultural development is therefore often seen as the key to reducing poverty, especially rural poverty. In most of sub-Saharan Africa, for example, where the rural poor are mostly small farmers, it is clear that increasing the efficiency of these farmers vis-à-vis large farmers (or of the country as a whole vis-à-vis competing countries) improves the small farmers’ condition. They can expand their sales and/or can produce their own subsistence with less effort or lower cash costs (for a full discussion see World Bank, 1986).

Keywords: Food Price; Real Income; Agricultural Output; Urban Poor; Rural Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10268-6_8

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