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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199689350

ISBN-139780199689354

eBay Product ID (ePID)167895741

Product Key Features

Number of Pages584 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameNew Directions for Smallholder Agriculture

Publication Year2014

SubjectAgriculture / General, Economics / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorAtiqur Rahman

Subject AreaTechnology & Engineering, Business & Economics

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight35.3 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2014-395405

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal338.16

Table Of ContentForeword1. IntroductionPART I: The State of Smallholder Agriculture in the Developing World2. On Being a Smallholder3. Right Place, Right Time: The State of Smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa4. Smallholder Farming in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities5. The State of Smallholders in Agriculture in Latin AmericaPART II: The Business Agenda for Smallholders6. Targeting Investments to Link Farmers to Markets: A Framework for Capturing the Heterogeneity of Smallholder Farmers7. Promoting Small Farmer Market Access in Asia: Issues, Experiences, and Mechanisms8. Financing Smallholder Farmers in Developing Countries9. Improving Farmers' Access to Agricultural Inputs and Finance: Approaches and Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa10. Corporate Agribusiness Development and Small Farms11. A Twenty-First Century Balancing Act: Smallholder Farm Technology and Cost-Effective Research12. Farmers as Entrepreneurs: Sources of Agricultural Innovation in AfricaPART III: Enhanced Livelihood Opportunities for Smallholders13. The Changing Rural World and Livelihood Options for Resource-Poor Rural People14. Securing Land Rights for Smallholder Farmers15. Empowering Women to Become Farmer Entrepreneurs: Case Study of an NGO Supported Programme in Bangladesh16. Securing a Future for Smallholder Farmers in an Era of Climate Change17. Rural Non-Farm Economy: Current Understandings, Policy Options, and Future Possibilities18. Conclusion: The Policy Agenda

SynopsisArising from an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) project this book explores the most promising innovations in technology, institutional, and policy approaches for creating additional and better farm business opportunities for smallholder farmers., The majority of the poor and hungry people in the world live on small farms and struggle to subsist on too little land with low input - low yield technologies. At the same time, many other smallholders are successfully intensifying and succeeding as farm businesses, often in combination with diversification into off-farm sources of income. This book examines the growing divergence between subsistence and business oriented small farms, and discusses how this divergence has been impacted by population growth, trends in farm size distribution, urbanization, off-farm income diversification, and the globalization of agricultural value chains. It finds that policy makers need to differentiate more sharply between different types of small farms than they did in the past, both in terms of their potential contributions towards achieving national economic growth, poverty alleviation, and food security goals, and the types of assistance they need. The book distinguishes between smallholders that are business oriented, subsistence oriented, and at various stages of transition to the non-farm economy, and discusses strategies appropriate for assisting each type. The book draws on a wealth of recent experience at IFAD and elsewhere to help identify best practice approaches.

LC Classification NumberHD1476.A3