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Commercialisations in Agriculture

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posted on 2024-09-06, 07:17 authored by Jennifer Leavy, Colin Poulton
According to this thinking, smallholder agriculture is uniquely positioned to deliver broad-based growth in rural areas (where the vast majority of the world‟s poor still live). However, others fear that strategies for commercialising agriculture will not bring benefits to the majority of rural households, either directly or (in the view of some) at all. Instead, they fear that efforts to promote a more commercial agriculture will benefit primarily large-scale farms. At best, the top minority of smallholders will be able to benefit. Accelerated growth in agriculture is seen by many as critical if the MDGs are to be met in Africa. Although there are debates about the future viability of small farms (Hazell et al. 2007), the official policies of many national governments and international development agencies accord a central role to the intensification and commercialisation of smallholder agriculture as a means of achieving poverty reduction.

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Future Agricultures Consortium

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Leavy, J. and Poulton, C. (2007) Commercialisations in Agriculture, FAC Working Paper 03, Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium

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FAC Working Paper 03

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