Agricultural development and economic transformation : promoting growth with poverty reduction /

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Author / Creator:Mellor, John Williams, 1928- author.
Imprint:Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 259 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Palgrave studies in agricultural economics and food policy
Palgrave studies in agricultural economics and food policy.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11384659
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ISBN:9783319652597
3319652591
9783319652580
3319652583
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 30, 2017).
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.--
Other form:Printed edition: 9783319652580
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-65259-7