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Making value chains more inclusive enables smallholder farmers to access markets that have previously been denied to them. To achieve this requires, among others, the right environment for growth, both domestically and for international trade, improved information flows, including through the use...
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An urgent problem facing the world today is the crisis facing the African continent. I though that you might be interested to read the Challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa. The themes of his statement are: the economic policy adjustments required to achieve long-term growth; the mounting pressures...
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01/01/1998 The authors address three basic questions about agricultural development in low- and middle-income countries: What are the strategic roles of agriculture in national development strategies? How can the agrarian transformation be accelerated? How can rural economic development be promoted to...
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This study identifies and examines small farm commercialization activities and pathways in the forest and transitional zones of Ghana, drawing on some experiences from the savannah zone as well. The effects of small farm commercialization on gender roles and relationships, as well as on...
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01/11/2002 The workshop on “Alternatives to Improve Negotiation and Market Access Capabilities of Small-Scale Rural Entrepreneurs in Latin America” was held in Lima, Peru, 2001 as part of the "farm-agribusiness linkages" initiative of FAO, which concentrates on how to develop and reinforce equitable and...
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20/01/2002 The Art of the Commonplace gathers 21 essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. The essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, ill-health and destructiveness of contemporary...
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This book contains new chapters on monetary and fiscal policy and an in-depth analysis of the economic relationships that affect and regulate the entire agricultural community. It also has expanded coverage of both the macroeconomic and microeconomic facts and principles that sound agri-business...
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The Unsettling of America is Wendell Berry's probing and personal inquiry into the way in which we use the land that sustains us, and an expression of profound awareness that farming cannot be considered separately from the larger culture. His provocative suggestions for change are by turns...
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This volume is comprised of 36 case studywrite-ups of the rural development projects studied, a complement to the analysis in Volume I.
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01/01/1988 Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial farming takes over. Theprevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social, ethical, and economics reasons. But will they? Possibly not, if current policies are not altered, say Marty...