This book contributes to the debate about the role of agriculture in poverty reduction by addressing three sets of … questions: Does investing in agriculture enhance/harm overall economic growth, and if so, under what conditions? Do poor people … tend to participate more/less in growth in agriculture than in growth in other sectors, and if so, when? If a focus on …

Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Index (FAO 2015). Its main economic activity is agriculture, including … growing crops and raising livestock, with over 80 per cent of the population working in this sector. In Niger, agriculture is …

2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy … wide Linkage model, new estimates of agricultural price distortions for developing countries, and poverty elasticity … primary agriculture than in the rest of the economy of developing countries, and earnings of unskilled workers more than of …

the reform program on agricultural development and poverty. The constituent elements of the reform program in place since … the headcount poverty ratio between 1992/93 and 1999/00 although more recently this trend has reversed. Uganda experienced … difficult to meet its poverty eradication objectives. Government policies set out in the Poverty Eradication Action Plan and the …