Agricultural development and economic transformation : promoting growth with poverty reduction / John W. Mellor.
Mellor, John W. author.
2017
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Title Agricultural development and economic transformation : promoting growth with poverty reduction / John W. Mellor.
Author Mellor, John W. author.
ISBN 9783319652597 (electronic book)
3319652591 (electronic book)
9783319652580
3319652583
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65259-7
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 259 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-65259-7 doi
Call Number HD1417
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.1/09172/4
Summary This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative agricultural growth rates and land tenure systems, and impact on cereal consumption and food security. The book provides detailed analysis of each element of agricultural modernization, emphasizing the central role of government in accelerated growth in private sector dominated agriculture. The book differs from the bulk of current conventional wisdom in its placement of the non-poor small commercial farmer at the center of growth, and explains how growth translates into poverty reduction. This new book is a follow up to Mellor’s classic, prize-winning text, The Economics of Agricultural Development.
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Series Palgrave studies in agricultural economics and food policy.
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1. Introduction
2. The Economic Transformation
3. Measuring the Impact of Agricultural Growth on the Economic Transformation
4. Poverty, Food Security, and Nutrition
5. Capital Formation and the Exchange Rate
6. The Farm, The Farmer, and Labor Supply
7. Land and Land Tenure
8. Government and the Institutions of Modernization
9. Physical Infrastructure
10. Education and Health
11. Prices and Price Policy
12. Research and Extension
13. Purchased Inputs
14. Finance for the Small Commercial Farmer
15. Cities, Consumption, and Marketing Dynamics
16. The Role of Foreign Aid
17. Conclusion.

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