Reforming Agriculture: Employment Generation and Poverty Reduction

Description

Untill 2000, agriculture was the mainstay of employment around the world. Since then, the services sector has assumed this mantle and the gap between the two has widened. Although employment growth in agriculture has slowed, the number of workers in this sector reached over one billion, representing 1 in 3 of all workers. 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 book, author measures by household class the employment impact of alternative agricultural growth rates and land tenure systems, and impact. 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.