Today, agrifood systems are undergoing remarkable changes, reflected in the modernization of food value chains and rural transformation responding to urbanization, income growth, and expansion of international trade.
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Explores key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change
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Regional experiences: What have we learned?
The five chapters on regional issues in agricultural development provide an overview of the various regional experiences and the transformation of agrifood systems.
Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change.
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Climate change and agricultural development
Climate change will be a major driver of change in the agricultural sector in the coming decades, along with changes in population, income, urbanization, dietary preferences, and technology.1 Agriculture is unique among economic sectors in its dep
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Credit for agricultural development
Access to financial services is critical for agricultural development. By “access to financial services” we mean access to credit, savings, payments, and insurance.
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Future of agricultural research
This chapter addresses some of the basic questions regarding agricultural research systems, especially in the context of developing countries, raised in the preceding chapters.
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Global issues in agricultural development
Chapter 1 reviewed dynamically changing global trends in agricultural development and identified emerging and diverse issues associated with the process of global agricultural development.
Agricultural production is a risky activity subject to several contingencies that make farming incomes unstable and unpredictable from year to year.
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Agricultural development in a changing world
The world has been changing rapidly, and major issues surrounding agriculture have evolved as well. In fact, over the last several decades major shifts have occurred in the thinking on and practice of agricultural development.
Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and developed countries.1 Political considerations are crucial to understand these policies since a
Although the ECA countries are agriculturally heterogeneous in many ways, they share a common institutional history and, in certain respects, a common reform experience.