Poverty Oriented Agricultural and Rural Development 1st Edition by Hartmut Brandt, Uwe Otzen 0415368537 9780415368537

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ISBN 10: 0415368537 

ISBN 13: 9780415368537

Author: Hartmut Brandt, Uwe Otzen

Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that eighty per cent of the world’s poor live in rural agricultural areas and that the poor are disproportionately affected when political, military and natural events lead to regional or global food shortages. Brandt and Otzen’s key book fills a gap in current literature, undertaking a wide-ranging conceptual reorientation of development cooperation, criticizing the current orthodoxy and its bias towards urban areas, and arguing that in order to effectively alleviate poverty across the world, agricultural and rural development measures need to be implemented both by central and subnational governments, aid agencies and the private sector. The authors investigate the world food question, the current pressures it is under and its link to rural poverty, and set out the policies that need to be undertaken to reduce global poverty.

Table of contents:

Part I Background to the Problem: World Food Question

1 Overview

2 Demand

3 Supply

4 Main Development Problem of the World Food Issue: Poverty, Hunger, Undernourishment and Malnutrition

5 Relevance of Food Prices to Poverty

Part II Motive for the Study: New Urban Bias in Development Cooperation

6 Neglect of the Agricultural Sector in Development Cooperation

7 Neglect of Agriculture in the Sub-Saharan African Countries

Part III Poverty Reduction in the Conceptual Experience of Agricultural Development

8 Role of Agriculture in the Early-Industrial Phase of Economic Development

9 Agricultural policy conceptions 1955–2000

Part IV Economic Growth, Agricultural Development, Poverty Reduction

10 Economic and Agricultural Growth

11 Driving Forces Behind Agricultural Growth

12 Growth and Poverty Reduction

13 The Problems Posed by Poverty-Oriented Agricultural Policy

Part V Conclusions and Recommendations

14 Conclusions

15 Recommendations

Part B: Institutional and Organizational Ways for Rural Communities of Sub-Saharan Africa to Reduce Poverty

Part I Global Framework for Sustainable and Poverty-Reducing Agricultural and Rural Development

1 Agenda 21

2 World Food Summit Plan of Action

3 UN Convention to Combat Desertification

4 UN Millennium Declaration and Poverty Reduction Strategies

5 Effects of, Difficulties with the Implementation of and Lessons to Be Learnt from the Structural Adjustment Programmes

Part II Realistic Problem-Solving Approaches

6 Requirements to Be Met by Development Cooperation

7 Focusing on Key Areas of Development Policy

8 Sequencing of Development Steps

9 Jettisoning of Ballast Inherent in Development Cooperation

10 Pooling Human and Financial Resources and Setting Priorities

11 Donor Coordination and International Division of Labour

12 Performance of Multifunctional Agricultural and Rural Development Tasks Through Decentralization

Part III Importance for Development Policy of, Preconditions for and Effects of Decentralization

13 Decentralization as a Recurrent Challenge to Development Policy

14 Importance for Broad-Based Socio-Economic Development

15 Effects on and Risks for Development Policy

16 Importance of Fiscal Decentralization for Development

17 Opportunities for Development Cooperation to Promote Decentralization

Part IV Decentralization and Development Cooperation Priorities

18 Cooperation Between the Private and Public Sectors

19 Integration of Intersectoral Programmes into Poverty Reduction Strategies

Part V Institutional and Organizational Implementation Options

20 Attempt at a Conceptual Approach

21 Poverty Reduction Through Agriculturally Based Rural Development

22 New Ways for Development Cooperation Support

Part VI Conclusions and Recommendations

23 Conclusions

24 Recommendations

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