Small Farmers and Employment

Paul Streeten

Chapter 14 in What Price Food?, 1987, pp 71-73 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Food subsidies discussed in the previous section are an important short-run measure to alleviate the impact of raising food prices for producers. But they can be very expensive and may make, by themselves, only a limited contribution to a long-term solution. For this, it is necessary to raise the earning capacity of the poor, either by generating employment opportunities or by enabling them to grow more productively the food they themselves consume. These longer term programmes are administratively more difficult, and often run into political obstacles. Experience in India and Bangladesh has shown that the provision of credit to small farmers can be a highly productive investment and that there are few defaults.

Keywords: Small Farmer; Food Price; Limited Contribution; Productive Investment; Longe Term Programme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18921-2_14

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